Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

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.

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

I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

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

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