Tech people I know who are big AI fanboys were anti mask and anti vaccine for vaguely libertarian reasons.

Those sectors did make money, but they spent a lot of time where everyone was shut indoors going on podcasts and talking about how their audience is shut indoors because the nanny state doesn’t want you to feel proud to be an American or whatever.

Yeah but speaking as meatman I’m okay with meatman dying. Robot me will be the real me, meat me is ephemeral.

I don’t believe in souls. I view my existence as like a wave, I am briefly in this cohesive form and will inevitably break upon the shore and both cease to be a wave yet forever be the ocean. Continuously moved and reshaped and never the same wave I was.

A body that allows my perception of existence to continue would prevent that, I would be able to continue to “exist” as I perceive it for much longer.

So yeah for me at least you can skip the gradual stuff. Just ctrl + c, ctrl + v and recycle the original.

I’d need to completely own it. I don’t want my extended memory storage to now also include product placement in my childhood memories or the cops can make my bionic legs stop working or whatever.

However, in the hypothetical situation where I completely own my augmentations, 100% I’m getting enhancements. In fact I would question the efficiency of giving me implants, it might just be easier to copy my brain into a completely robotic body.

I used to like the punch of “It’s not just ___, it’s ___” but I’ve pretty much removed that from my vocabulary.

It seems good for people. Most people I’ve known who did it seem glad they did.

It’s one of those things where I wish the governing body was more separate from the concept, and I feel for people who dedicated a great deal of time to a positive force in their life yet have to grapple with what the institution itself is.

It’s all Dwarf Fortress in the end