“What do we do? It would be absurd to explain it. But I’ll nutshell it for you. We look for holes in human models of identity, history, meaning and relation… and we exploit them in a wide variety of ways for heuristic purposes. In this fashion, we play games that call each other into prodigy and wonder. We are pioneers of a frontier most humans will live and die right next to and never discover. We develop informal relational frameworks that advance available intelligence radically. As we proceed, we are re-engineering our own minds and their abilities. We are discovering lost assets that belong to our species, and developing assets undreamt of. While much of the rest of humanity is hypnotized by mechanical objects, we have been laying the groundwork for the evolutionary leap we skipped. We are becoming that leap. Now.”

— an anonymous fellowship