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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

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The Future of Humanity

In the early 2000s, I was really most sympathetic with what is called anarcho- anarcho-perminivism. Initially, it was super critical of the transhumanist worldview. Some of that was actually stemmed from Kurzwell's insistence that this is inevitable. And so for a while, I became convinced that this, a future at least somewhat resembling what Kurzweil prognosticates is maybe inevitable. It's inewlectable. It's unavoidable and then I thought well, if we can't stop this juggernaut of technology, maybe best thing to do is to hopefully like modify over time the trajectory of development. So after careful reflection, which I think is most

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