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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

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The Transhumanist Wager

"I would have been with you until the very last moment of the so-called transhumanist revolution. And I would have kind of resigned and stepped back at your parade," he says. "Science fiction is like the sugar-coated pill, it smuggles all kinds of messages by sugar-coating it as a science fiction." He adds: "At one level or another, it starts influencing our decisions about how we perceive the options that we have"

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