Not just complex or hard to understand, absolutely and completely beyond comprehension. — We are all familiar with concepts or ideas that are hard to understand, for example advanced math or a difficult puzzle, but what about ideas or concepts that are completely impossible for you, me, or anyone else, to understand. Not hard or even incredibly hard, but unequivocally impossible. …

Today, we control our machines, but the reverse seems increasingly inevitable. — If our machines will eventually surpass us in terms of intelligence, then it would seem that we have only a limited window between when we figure out how to create artificial intelligence and when the artificial intelligences stop listening to us. Indeed, they might plausibly reach a point where their…