Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time
I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard.
I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin
I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.
Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.
Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
Our creation is the modification of relationship.