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Grand Futures: What are we hoping for? What do we do if we get it? | Anders Sandberg | EAGxOxford 22

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A Few Questions About the Fermi Paradox

I think many of the people who want humble futures they are of course absolutely horrified by a cyborg future. They want normal people with normal social relations in a sensible village somewhere. We can analyze some things like my argument with the human and the cyborg but it seems like the space of possible modes of existing is enormously vast. It's also worth investigating very carefully because we know the depths of horror that can exist within a human mind. I hope the number of risks is bounded at 26. Let's hope we have a Hawaiian alphabet it's shorter. A few questions around intelligent life elsewhere that's not on earth.

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