What I'm trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon. In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Didn't work out.

Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.

There's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars...compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.

I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.