We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

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

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

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.

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