Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.

Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make.

Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

Human nature is a work in progress.

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.