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Kallik’s explanation was neat, logical, and complete. Like most such explanations, it was, in Hans Rebka’s view, almost certainly wrong. That was not the way the real world operated.

— Charles Sheffield Transcendence (1992)

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It is very clear that nothing in nature presents such a danger to the human race is our own actions.

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Intelligence is too subtle an attribute to be inferred from appearance.

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