The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.