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?

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

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

Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.