The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.