Transhumanism and Existential Risk with Josh Schuster and Derek Woods
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The Relationship Between Intelligence and the Human Condition
Bostrom claims that humanity has to leave our mortal fleshy shells and become this immortal 2.0 version of ourselves merged with technology, or otherwise will have failed to achieve our potential as intelligent beings. And there's also another interesting irony that you observe here, because achieving this human 2.0 will rely on massive resource extraction and material infrastructures that benefit the few. So if we're trying to get to a sort of good version of superintelligence, but we have to avoid letting superintelligence extinguish us, says Bostrom. The goal of becoming, right, fulfilling our full potential and becoming a transhuman disembodied intelligences is both the goal and the problem in
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