Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.

The point is to explore whatever may be helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.

On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.