The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

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

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.