I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

I do not believe that there is any person, method, or tool that can consistently and reliably predict specific human events, X- or otherwise.

Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.

Reality is a wave function traveling both backward and forward in time.

At some point, the world is going to have to bite the bullet and accept a huge downsizing in its way of life to bring the assets-to-debt ratio back in touch with reality.

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.

I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past

Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

I dream a world... where wretchedness will hang its head and joy, like a pearl, attends the needs of all mankind. Of such I dream, my world!

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.

TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning

I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome