if you could change anything about yourself (your body, your brain) what would you become in the end
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you clearly wouldn't stay you v long, but what would the path your intentions sent you down end in
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Catalyst's smug belief is "Once people get that power they will eventually evolve into Reapers"
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Synthesis is "Fuck you, we're gonna start over and this time we won't"
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(Destroy is "Fuck you, no we won't, we'll start all the way over and not even get to that point")
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(Destroy is stupid)
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I think about this problem a lot, it's what CS Lewis wrote abt in The Abolition of Man
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I don't agree with his conservatism but I agree it's a difficult and scary problem
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like I do strongly believe the human brain is fundamentally broken, but it's all we've got
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our idea of what a non-broken brain would be like is one that came out of our broken brains
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how the hell do we even know the things we do to ourselves to "fix" ourselves aren't making it worse
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(cf. the transhumanists' really scarily inchoate concept of "extrapolated human volition")
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