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

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

I say, let's learn more and then speculate.

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.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.

Peregrine Wickwrackrum was of two minds about evil: when enough rules get broken, sometimes there is good amid the carnage.

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