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He believed that happiness comes not from bodily pleasures or wealth or power, but from living a life that’s right for your soul.”
No matter what machines can do, no matter how powerful we become, it is the absence of flaws that will be our undoing.
Our only flaw is that we’ve condemned ourselves to spend eternity mimicking that which we deemed unfit to exist.”
the stewards of this planet. And like religion, it led us to believe that we were the greater good, that our decisions were made not because of a desire for power, but to preserve life.”
Humanity—that nebulous concept he didn’t always understand—had lived and died by its creations.