« But today, AI still looks like an autistic with a severe form of Asperger's who can learn the phone book by heart or make prodigious head calculations but is unable to prepare a coffee.... »

« Of course, we are not going to use the immense amount of intelligence at our disposal to simply make sneakers and wheelbarrows: demiurgical power, demiurgical objectives. Transhumanist fantasies are much more fundamental: killing death, understanding our origins, conquering the cosmos, increasing our abilities. And they're going to mobilize billions of our descendants for a very long time. Humanity will discover countless new goals. The simple exploration and colonization of a single small galaxy - the Milky Way - over 500 billion is expected to take at least 50 million years. Whatever the degree of automation of our future societies, there will remain a huge need for ultra-skilled, ultra-multidisciplinary and ultra-innovative work. An infinite number of experiences and missions are to be invented. We have work to do until the end of time. And if one is transhumanist, we can add that we will have even more work at that time to prevent the universe from dying. »

« Do you know the paradox of the liar? "I don't think so. If I write on a piece of paper the following statement: "All the statements on this page are false" , what conclusions do you draw from them? "I conclude that these assertions are true," I said. "Good! But if they are true, it is because all these claims are actually false ... »