The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.
Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.