Comment author: Ivo 18 September 2008 11:28:05PM 0 points [-]

"...but the younger me, let's call him Eliezer1997, set out to argue inescapably that creating superintelligence is the right thing to do."

Of course it's the right thing to do: How else could we ever achieve a truly Cultural lifestyle? (meaning, as in Iain M. Banks' Culture)