Jaan Tallinn said this quote

I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.

~ Jaan Tallinn

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

~ Jaan Tallinn

In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

~ Jaan Tallinn

Once you acknowledge that human brains are basically made of atoms and acknowledge that atoms are governed by simple laws of physics, then there is no reasoning principle why computers couldn't do anything that people are doing, and we don't really see any evidence that this is not the case.

~ Jaan Tallinn