First, that was an amazing story and extremely well written! Second, the analogy it represents and your critique afterwards were fabulous! Kudos to you sir!
He's the same guy that wrote 'Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies'[1]; which is reportedly the book which 'alerted' Elon Musk to the dangers of AI.
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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dange...