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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

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The End of Eugenics

I hope our audience are able to see how our sort of original digression about eschatology and teleology is actually closing the loop here. And I mean, even more since you can presumably fit more simulated beings per volumetric unit of space than you can your biological beings. And furthermore, since space colonization is probably at least interstellar colonization is probably impossible for biological beings. You probably need to be a digital being. This future that's envisioned is one that's just completely populated by digital consciousness. Ultimately, I think this is like a deeply impoverished view of the future.

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