Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, "Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living." We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

Is war an inevitable outcome of competing interests in a complex society? In other words, would war be the same even if human nature were very different? There are mathematical models of large groups working together that lead to conflict on a reliable basis. So there's a whole other view of war that is not psychological at all.

There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.