Caledonian2 comments on Fake Optimization Criteria - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 November 2007 12:10AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 10 November 2007 03:54:02PM -2 points [-]

it is up to us to make sure we will have a place in such a future

The thing about post-humanity is that it will not have humanity in it. It's up to us to make sure that post-humanity comes into existence. This necessarily involves the obsolescence of human beings.

The future we must build necessarily cannot have a place for us in it. That's the point! The acorn does not survive the creation of the oak.