Technical people don't make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the
users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.