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It's very unlikely that a superintelligent AI will create unlimited prosperity for everyone on a finite world in a short amount of time. You may not be among the lucky ones.
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It may soon seem not worth living forever with our limited monkey-brains, watching the horizon of thought recede ever-faster from us.
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Or, conversely, they are the exact tools that will allow the powerful folks to not care about the peasants anymore. History tells us what happens then.
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> I'm a transhumanist, I want to build god and kill death.

This is good and admirable, but it'd really suck if by trying to build god without knowing how we end the human species. We could simply wait some more decades until we actually have any idea what we're doing, and then do that without the risk.

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