Quotes by : Mark O'Connell

Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose....

The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.....

In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity.....

The odds seemed pretty long from where I was standing, certainly, but then again, I reminded myself,....

Humans, after all, weren’t actively hostile toward most of the species we’d made extinct over the....

I recalled with some discomfort that the man driving the vehicle had invented the sport of volcano boarding,....

These robots are literally inhuman, and yet I react no differently to their stumblings and topplings....

This is one of the problems with reality: the extent to which it resembles bad fiction.

It seemed to me that transhumanism was an expression of the profound human longing to transcend the confusion....

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole....