“We love life here every instant. Every second is so good that it would blow your mind had its amperage not been previously increased. My contemporaries and I bear witness, and we are requesting your aid. Please, help us come into existence! Please, join us! Whether this tremendous possibility becomes a reality depends on your actions. If your empathy can perceive at least the outlines of the vision I am describing, then your ingenuity will find a way to make it real. Human life, at its best, is fantastic. I’m asking you to create something even greater. Life that is truly humane.”

— Nick Bostrom, Letter from Utopia (2010)