Do not quench the spirit

"...When many of the best minds in machine learning have decided that the most existential threat to civilization is the rise of Skynet, we have had a major failure of group think. Many ML researchers are more concerned with trying to bring about The Singularity, than in solving real problems."

--Ben Recht

Well said, sir. Well said. Too bad that it was phrased during a testing of faith, as it were, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.