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From the Vault: The Machine Lords of Barnard 68, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence

As a transhumanist, you are supportive of their right not to enhance it is now a d 24 hundred for years. Over time, the slow addition of better and better neural circuitry has left no real intellectual difference in kind between you and super intelligent a i. The only real difference between you and an a i creature of standard design is one of origin. You were once a natural but you are now almost entirely engineered by technology. And so her thought experiment ends there, but she is trying to sketch how it would be plausible to imagine humans existing to day, actually becoming machines little by little over time and extending their life spans.

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