• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    This sparks joy: Augmentation to help people become the selves that they would truly like to be.

    This does not: Some kind of transhuman singularity dystopia where we have replaced ourselves not out of a soul-driven yearning for our true self, but in service of a cold, quantitative utilitarian calculus that says we must shed our skin because it is logically inferior.

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      1 year ago

      Both. Everyone is afraid of AI taking over but it’s just a tool. Human augmentation is way more likely to lead there. But in the mean time, Stephen Hawking lived quite a while only being able to speak with augmentations. Just like any other technology, it will be at the very least researched in fear that someone else will first. So might as well embrace it

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        I’m not afraid of AI taking over. I’m afraid of the TESCREAL suicide cult that wants AI to take over. If they are the ones who ultimately push a singularity button, because they believe it’s a moral imperative to push the singularity button, we’re going to have a really shitty rapture.