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

Are you living in a computer simulation?

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

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

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.

It’s unlikely that any of those natural hazards will do us in within the next 100 years if we’ve already survived 100,000. By contrast, we are introducing, through human activity, entirely new types of dangers by developing powerful new technologies. We have no record of surviving those.

We should not be confident in our ability to keep a super-intelligent genie locked up in its bottle forever.