How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

So much technology, so little talent.

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding.

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

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.