Debate: does turning humans into ASI fix baseline humans' structural disadvantage?
voooooogel · x · 2026-09-13
MugaSofer questions a common position: even if a human is upgraded into an ASI, baseline humans remain structurally disadvantaged — so how does that change anything? voooooogel responds that as a future baseline human, he'd feel better knowing some posthumans exist up there as delegates, even if they have grown far beyond him.
A substantive argument on alignment and posthuman perspectives within AGI discourse.
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