For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this "negative meta-knowledge" - about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful - may be a large portion of all we know. (Marvin Minsky)

For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this "negative meta-knowledge" - about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful - may be a large portion of all we know.

Marvin Minsky

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