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?

All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.

He was guided by what he saw rather than by what he wanted to believe.

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

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

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.