Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

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

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.