That’s not remotely comparable, you sound like you have TDS.

That’s not gonna happen, we don’t live in a James Bond movie.

I don’t think the elite would be capable of taking on the entire rest of the world with any technology. That’s never been the case in all of human history, offensive power has always been distributed one way or another. Even in North Korea Kim Jong Un has to please his military to remain in power. Not to mention the 1% isn’t willing to genocide everyone else, that’s just ridiculous paranoid fearmongering.

I don’t find people being taken advantage of to be fascinating, I think that’s fucking awful. I want for that to finally end and for people to start treating each other decently, even if that decency has to be enforced by an AI or superior posthuman species.

I mean it’s their safest bet, the other alternative is we rise up and kill them like the masses did to elites in the past… If they could avert that by giving us free stuff, assuming we wouldn’t have the technology at this point to produce it ourselves, they would be wise to do so.

I really hope so, I’m so sick of this retarded ape world we live in.

What points did you make? We’re already starting to genetically engineer children even though we haven’t gotten to the intelligence part yet and there’s no clear indication that AGI will happen anytime soon, it’s a completely theoretical technology.

I don’t think it’s at all clear that AGI will happen before human superintelligence, that seems like complete speculation.

Well I’m pretty misanthropic and I’d rather humans go extinct than that society continues on its current course, so yeah I suppose so.

Nothing wrong with being a furry sex machine, there’s nothing degenerate about that.

That’s very optimistic, I hope you’re right. Narrow AI that could enable post scarcity by itself would probably be better than AGI imo since the unpredictability of AGI scares me.

Realistically it would be closer to The Road than Mad Max honestly, Mad Max is too glamorous.

Most likely just gonna off myself in that scenario, not gonna lie. I don't really fancy any Mad Max or Road type shit.

So far we are not at the stage where the Singularity is likely to be imminent, contrary to what some people here say. That means we probably have anywhere from 1 to 3 decades for the “good” people to coordinate and plan ways for it to happen in a more beneficial way or stop it from happening at all if that is deemed more desirable. That is really what people should be using this sub for, not just idle speculation.

Well unlike most people on this sub, I think transhumanism should be prioritized over the creation of AGI. I’m more interested in AI serving us as tools or augmenting our capabilities than ruling over us. Furthermore, you absolutely could have continuity of consciousness as long as augmentation happened in a ship of Theseus way, say by gradually boosting your IQ by 20 points every year instead of all at once.

I guess the “end of human civilization” doesn’t really matter to me as long as my consciousness still exists in some form. Since I already think of myself as a prospective posthuman, I don’t really perceive any more loss in that scenario than the “loss” involved in going from a child to an adult.

It isn’t inherently a doomsday scenario though, assuming humans as individual beings will survive and simply ascend into a different and more advanced form of life.

Well some people are inevitably going to die of old age, I hope it’s as few as possible though. It would be nice if my parents were able to live, they would need it to happen in the next 20 or 30 years.

I mean would it realistically take more than like 60 years (long enough for me at least)? That’s the difference between now and the moon landing and the first true computers.

Is there a reason incremental progress by human researchers wouldn’t be enough?

Hear hear! It’s the epitome of privilege when people come up with sci fi stories about how shitty a world without struggle would be. I don’t think anyone who isn’t in like the global top 5% economically could come up with such an absurd concept.

Bruh I just wanna have an AI dungeon master and generate porn lmao. I think there’s a middle ground between allowing that and removing all precautions.

I mean I don’t see why we can’t do both given enough time. Realistically we’ll be able to do a lot more in VR in the near future than in the real universe though.

Satanism is awesome 😈

For me my purpose is living as long as I can or until I get bored, suffering as little as I can manage and having as many experiences that are new and enjoyable as possible, and shaping myself into what I perceive as the most ideal version of me. All those things would be furthered by transhumanism. If you perceive your life to have a different meaning that’s ok but these are the things that motivate me.