I think we're about to see an explosion of tech that's gonna radically alter what it means to be human, and I have no idea how our cultural brains are going to handle this
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Assuming AI doesn't kill us, what happens to our world when everything we do is done better by nonhumans? And not just everything we do - everything we *wish we could do*. If it's aligned, it should be trivial to rebuild our bodies however we want.
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I really think this is gonna hit real fast, under ten years
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I think some people will conclude that the Amish were right but simply got the era wrong.
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We already have a hard enough time keeping up with current tech as a society. We won’t know the ramifications for decades.
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Its been less than 6 weeks since SD hit and look what's already happened. I used to think the transhumanists(of which i consider myself) were a bit too optimistic, but maybe they were not. Here's hoping we can avoid Gattaca.
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Humanity is going to go through the full grieving process as the key meme of “I am valuable because I contribute value to society” collapses into “I am valuable because I exist”
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One way to handle it: embrace the adaptation process, be pro-life and pro-intelligence more broadly than traditional humanism
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I mean, look at how much people freak out when we allow people to go a bit fluid on their gender. Folks are gonna lose their shit with the kind of things you’re talking about, especially the Christian Fundamentalists.
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