Post-AGI 'meaning' debates ignore neurotech: why can't we just turn off dread?
MWCvitkovic · x · 2026-10-20
The author notes a wave of thinkpieces on 'meaning' and 'mattering' after AGI, but points out that almost none take neurotechnology seriously (Bostrom being an exception). He poses a pointed question: how are people imagining futures with Dyson spheres while failing to imagine the ability to switch off existential dread on command? Argues neurotech deserves a place in AGI-era philosophy of meaning.
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