Max Tegmark quotes

Max Tegmark is a renowned Swedish-American physicist and artificial intelligence researcher. He is a professor at MIT and has made significant contributions to the fields of cosmology, AI, and physics. Tegmark is known for his work on the multiverse hypothesis and the concept of parallel universes. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, which focuses on the ethical implications of AI. With a strong presence in the academic world, Tegmark is a prominent figure in science and technology. Learn more about Max Tegmark and his groundbreaking research in cosmology and artificial intelligence.

We invented fire, repeatedly messed up, and then invented the fire extinguisher, fire exit, fire alarm and fire department.

- Max Tegmark

Your synapses store all your knowledge and skills as roughly 100 terabytes’ worth of information, while your DNA stores merely about a gigabyte, barely enough to store a single movie download.

- Max Tegmark

Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for our distant ancestors, such as the parabolic orbits of flying rocks.

- Max Tegmark

Life 1.0: life where both the hardware and software are evolved rather than designed. You and I, on the other hand, are examples of Life 2.0: life whose hardware is evolved, but whose software is largely designed. By your software, I mean all the algorithms and knowledge that you use to process the information from your senses and decide what to do—everything from the ability to recognize your friends when you see them to your ability to walk, read, write, calculate, sing and tell jokes.

- Max Tegmark