Dev quips: sufficiently advanced open individualism is indistinguishable from suicidality
louisvarge · x · 2026-11-10
A one-line philosophical quip circulating in AI circles: "sufficiently advanced open individualism is indistinguishable from suicidality." Open individualism is the view that all conscious beings share a single subject of experience, often invoked in debates about mind uploading, copies, and the boundary of death. The author follows up with a twist: go one step further, achieve paradise engineering (abolishing suffering via technology), and you can finally chill without worrying about your terrible immortality.
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