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

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.

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

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.