Will_Pearson comments on Beyond the Reach of God - Less Wrong

66 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 October 2008 03:42PM

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Comment author: Will_Pearson 05 October 2008 11:59:00AM 0 points [-]

It sounds like you see the future as a big abandoned factory, where you are a shadow, and the strange mechanisms do their spooky dance.

I see the future as full of adults, to which I am a useless child. Or if Eliezer gets his way one adult to which I am an embryo. I can't even help with the equivalent of washing up.

Think instead of what changes could make the future right specifically for you.

I'd like a future where people were on a level with me, so I could be of some meaningful use.

However a future without massive disparities of power and knowledge between myself and the inhabitants, would not be able to revive me from cryo sleep.