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

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

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

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

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.

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