Erica Jong Quotes

What's most interesting about trying to figure out AI is the questions that it forces you to ask about the nature of consciousness.

Perhaps I'm absolutely bonkers and don't know it. Perhaps I'm psychotically mental.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

I think insanity is the hardest thing to play.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I can only presume that you have gone out of your mind.

There's something messed up with my brain.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

I sometimes wonder if I'm a psychopath.

I'm a lunatic.

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.