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I agree with everything you wrote but I would rather choose to be an optimist here because it will unlock an age of discovery where humans are going to live at 10x of their potential eventually and cure cancer and become a society bold and technologically adept enough to cut through the universe.

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There’s actually a potential dark future where even this 10x ascension itself would mark the end of humanity. Humans would be the Homo sapiens who remain at 1x, and those who can access and afford to be 10x eventually split off into a new species. And historically there isn’t room for two species at the top…

There so much blind faith encapsulated by the assumptions that A) people will live 10x longer and B) that this will be an inherent and obviously good thing. There are obviously major complexities to such a scenario, not to mention a sort of narcissistic hubris.

But yeah, let’s cure cancer. If only there was even a blip of increasing evidence for that supposed eventuality coming from AI. Maybe I’m just not seeing it? I’d love some citations to correct the record.

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