I found this essay about differing viewpoints on where Homo sapiens is headed to be very interesting.
A “disparate group of thinkers” also known as defeatists.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=i9o8ZyOVWUo
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The techno-gazillionaires who are fused with AI can live for eternity without the rest of us while they celebrate the success of their enshittified libertarian accelerationist utopia.
Um…sorta? A rudimentary AI simulation of them will live until power ceases, but that will be a separate entity than the flesh and blood gazillionaire who commissioned the AI to represent him.
On the other hand, it does intersect with the transporter paradox: When you beam down to the planet, is it the same you or just a clone with all your memories that is convincingly you even to itself? And if that’s the case, when you go into delta sleep and then wake again (at which point all your cognizant functions reboot) is the waking you the same person as the you who went to bed the night before?
If there’s any possibility that it isn’t then the gazillionaire AI zombie may be good enough.
Pay walled, but I gotta say, I’ve not seen any reason why we deserve to go on. We are a parasite on the planet destroying everything as we go until there is nothing left.
