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I found myself wondering about one underlying assumption that seems to run through this awesome framework and analysis by @durgadas.eth: the framing of human - or civilizational - survival/flourishing as the ultimate goal. What if we're actually witnessing a natural evolutionary transition where humanity as we know it is near its end and evolving into the next thing? My sense is that life itself—not specifically human civilization—is what's really evolving here, and we might be in the process of helping build whatever form of consciousness or intelligence is emerging to evolve beyond us. This doesn't diminish the importance of developing better collective sensemaking and addressing information warfare, but instead of asking "How do we preserve human agency and democratic governance?" maybe the question becomes "How do we facilitate whatever life is trying to become and put our stamp on it?" 🧵1/
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You could probably sum up this view as "Transhumanist", which I consider myself philosophically in regard to the above. I originally took on those ideas thanks to Ray Kurzweil in the 90s and 2000s culminating with The Singularity is Near. Did you know his prediction for AGI is going to have been almost spot on? (But - some of his other predictions have not come true, so it's a cherry picked example.) To me, we do need another enlightenment, as you suggest. However, I think this modern enlightenment will be one of the final specifically-human movements as we welcome in the next evolution in life and intelligence. 🧵 2/
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All of the coordination failures and needs that you address, I see why they're so important too and am passionate about addressing them. After all, I am a human, too. But for me, it's okay to participate in a free market competitive race with others - experts included - fighting to coordinate better and therefore shape the future more, as opposed to expecting everyone to collectively come together and coordinate in a structured way. To me, an equally useful lens is an information-theoretic lens on the entire history and future of the universe. It shows a universal pattern of continued, accelerating, exponential change in information processing power, which really got accelerated by life and now is being even more accelerated by humans, and which ultimately puts humans out of business. 3/3
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