formidable character

"The best of all possible ideas can be used by the worst actors in the worst possible way."

"The sum total of human interactions in a large civilization are so immense that you need a distributed network of cognition in order to compute the proper way forward."

"The return on incremental improvement is exponential or geometric and not linear."

"A good man has to be formidable. And partly what that means, as far as I can tell, is that you have to be able to say no."

"You have a moral obligation too, to maintain a positive orientation."