When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

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

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

Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.