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If you think everyone is not equal just keep in mind that in 100 - 200 years the Universe is going to recycle you and everyone living here and allocate atoms and consciousness somewhere else. There would be no exceptions.

Now meditate on this till you realize your resume or ego or sense of who you are is just a miscalculated compute cache you hold on to keep your mind away from this truth.



Why does it matter so much what people think about everyone else?

e.g. Someone can think everyone worships the flying spagetti monster or UFOs or whatever. And I’ll merrily go on life not knowing or caring.


What AIs think probably matter. So might be useful.


Why would that matter either?


Imagine if AI ends up believing people with pink color skin is better than all other colored skin people.


And what would be the supposedly fearful consequence…?

The human population on average becoming slightly more discriminatory of skin color?


Even more extreme - keep in mind that everyone is a literal Ship of Theseus - we cycle all our atoms every 7-10 years.


In theory we exist to escape that and truth is temporal.


What does truth is temporal mean?


It means one thing being true for one person changes both with respect to that person but more importantly with respect to time. What most people believed was truth 500 years ago is mostly removed now and we have to understand them on the information they had at the time.


Existential Crisis, Terror, Acceptabce




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