"Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish."
"Existence without essence is very stressful."
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Source: The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive. Book by Brian Christian, March 1, 2011.
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