I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.
Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and the least expensive manipulation of all.
I say, let's learn more and then speculate.
Poor humans; they will all die.""Poor us; we will not.
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.