The same urges that drive us to build a company or find a life partner or visit a sacred temple will be the urges that drive us to “plug in” our brains to interfaces that allow us to do and experience vast, expansive vistas of qualia experience that we don’t now access.ġ1:00 - “People don’t want sleep, food, physical bodies… we don’t want to have to cut our nails… we don’t want to need relationships in order to feel happy. I believe that our need to fulfill our drives is insatiable, and eventually will push us to expand our ability to know, to create, to relate, to feel, and to have experiences that humanity cannot now access. I wrote 6+ years ago that human ideas (what drives us, what motivates us) will tear us from humanity. When we will begin escaping into virtual worlds Our Human Drives Will Drive Us to Post-Humanity ”ġ5:00 - “I think there we will be people with their physical body as a husk, experiencing things through senses and through limbs and permutations of senses that humans cannot access.”ġ7:40 - “When the social pressure from the pragmatic perspective happens with VR, that’s when the ‘going in’ will begin.” (i.e. I’ve written an entire essay about Japan’s hikikomori, and what they represent about the first world transition to digital escape.ġ1:40 - “An unenhanced person maybe 20 or 30 years from now will have a zero percent chance of running the show. You get rich, you get sad because there is no meaning, then you escape into virtual worlds… I think that’s what the whole rich first world is going to – or a lot of the males anyway.”
The best essays to see my more complete thoughts on these topics are Lotus Eaters vs World Eaters and Programmatically Generated Everything.ġ0:00-ish - “Japan is the canary in the coal mine of the first world. The quotes below build on my ideas about the transhuman transition, and the motives by which most of humanity will enter more and more personalized worlds. Humanity Needs to Steer the Grand TrajectoryĤ:20 - “I think the two main questions for humanity are (a) What are we turning ourselves into ?, and (b) How do we get there without all dying violently? I think there should be UN sustainable development goals for humanity moving forward beyond people, and can we create a non-arms-race dynamic to get there?” We are Going In (Lotus Eaters, World Eaters)
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