singularity quote

"Playing G-d" is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to "play G-d", the world as we know it wouldn't exist today. A few million humans would live in savannahs and forests, eking out a hunter-gatherer existence, without writing or hstory or mathematics or an appreciation of the intricacies of their own universe and their own inner workings.
--Ramez Naam


more to come on scientific design in the next few weeks, as i delve into my next pile of dorkdom.