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Baughn comments on Questions on the human path and transhumanism. - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: HopefullyCreative 12 August 2014 08:34PM

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Comment author: Baughn 12 August 2014 08:43:09PM 2 points [-]

Well, there are quite a few other options.

Just for instance, the AGI might not solve all our problems for us. I think I'd be okay to have it working in the background - as a sort of operating system - without actually telling us spoilers for all those scientific problems you mentioned. There are problems with that, but let's spend a little more time thinking before deciding that transhumanism is the only answer.

Not that I won't be all over transhumanism almost as soon as I can.