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That guy sure seems to have an axe to grind with materialism and existentialism.

Human life is not valuable because we can do things that computers can't, or that computers shouldn't. It's valuable because we can make it valuable. We can make our lives count.

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This is sort of self-contradictory: if computers can do anything you can do, how exactly you can make your life count?

Other humans can do anything you can do. If you can make your life count under those conditions, why would a computer change anything.

> Other humans can do anything you can do.

No they really can't.

What's something that only you can uniquely do that no other person in the world can, and is also under threat by AI?

Eventually, somebody should be able to generate any ideas that I will come up with. But at this point I have descent chances to generate something genuinely unique for the first time. That potential for head start is under threat by a superhuman AI.

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