Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
We're endangered by our own success.
In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
So much technology, so little talent.