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I would be God’s sole (soul :evilfun: ) companion, the female Goddess, in charge of all Yin, Mother of all that has ever been or will ever be.

oh I don’t know if you really want that. it’s a lot of messes, tantrums, and growing pains.

Too big of a monster extension?

Anything less than being one of two gods, wouldn’t be much of an improvement. :evilfun:

Being an eternal being would get boring very soon and then what would you do

How’s about a memory wipe and another lifetime but all the while having at least the suspicion of God status.

just wondering if there’s a middle ground between status-quo and god-like for you concerning human evolution.

Why would I settle for less than the best? Genetics is disastrous. Technology is clunky. What’s the point in downgrading?

A memory wipe would not work if you were omniscient and so the problem of boredom would still remain

But it’s a bit much to achieve the be all end all in one step, yeah?

Thunder cracking in the background, right on cue. :sunglasses:

I can appreciate synchronicity

:-k Aren’t you full of Woo tonight? I woo’nt expect as much from you, shocking. :astonished:


There is only one person here that is full of woo and it is not me

God not happy with you getting ideas above your station

Yeah, we might be going that way.
cnn.com/videos/health/2017/0 … -vstan.cnn

I haven’t seen Matrix in a while, but I don’t think it would be unreasonable to think that humans at some point may eventually want to live like that and will have designed such system themselves?

(remember the steak scene?)

Where did your rational perspective go? Now there is a God who is talking to me, is that what woo wrote? :laughing:


I was being ironic o Mother of all that has ever been or will ever be

This I like. :-" :wink:

To address astute comments from pilgrim, surreptitious and fuse:

In my opinion I think merging with tech is going to be key if humans are to persist past the next few centuries in any dignified way.

Whether we should do this is up to how badly we want it. Such a choice won’t come down to how intelligently we approach the problem. It will come down to an aesthetic impulse. It will come down to what we decide we want. The greatest challenge will be to survive not artificial intelligence, but our own intelligence.

It’s not uncommon for philosophers and artists to outsmart themselves out of a job, but not the job of creating and philosophizing; the job of living. As the intellect and self awareness increases, there’s, I suspect, a direct proportionality with the increase of reasons to cease living, and an inverse relation to the reasons to persist in living.

The point I’m after here is that while we need technologies to make us smarter to survive and Marshall our AI progeny without having them overwhelm us, we also need technology to keep us dumb in certain ways, or eventually we’ll break that fragile thing within us that generates meaning.

If meaning is so fragile and fleeting, why protect it? Surely something so delicate is built in sand anyway, so why fight to preserve it?

In the end those among us not plagued by existential crisis will likely persist, not because they are smarter, but because they are that perfect blend of simpleton or amygdala, and quantum circuitry and crispr. Our pre-frontals will fall away like heavy rocket booster, and the capsule will have been our reptilian brains all along. So yes, I worry we may survive, but that we will evolve into a scourge.

For a benevolent society to thrive, we’d need to program ourselves to want to survive at all costs, when nature stops programming that impulse within us naturally and by default. There’s something a bit gross about that, about “prosthetic will to live.” But it’s the final turning point: do we program ourselves to want to survive?

I predict yes, because in the end, our success at maintaining our human altruistic traits through the singularity transition will be the only thing protecting the universe from the treachery and pain caused by the alternate things we could become. Our goodness and our disdain for causing pain to others will trump any existential crisis and force us to dumb ourselves enough to want to live.

Thus, as religion predicts, in the end times, it will be our morality that saves us. Except it will be saving us from ourselves, not from the wrath of an omniscient and omnipotent God, although at this point I scarcely see a difference.