Bioengineering: Human beings can fully exploit their potential under the existing organic body structure

Non-organic bioengineering: intelligent software replaces neural networks, inorganic life replaces organic life

1. The above refers to "humanity as a whole", not most individual people; 2. This is a historical prediction rather than a political goal; pursuit may not necessarily achieve it.

3. Prediction is not for the purpose of prophecy. Prediction can change the future after discussion.

Experts all have their own strengths, and no one understands the entire system; modern economies can only grow endlessly, braking will lead to collapse, and can only pursue sustainable goals: immortality, happiness, and divinity.

Humans have exterminated and conquered other large animals and dominated the world; humans, like other animals, are a set of biological algorithms for reproduction, and emotions and desires help us find a path quickly

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If the soul is evolved, it is contrary to the nature of evolution that it is an indivisible, eternal entity; if the soul suddenly appears in a human being, it is impossible to imagine that he or his parents did not have a trace of soul before him or his parents.

If everything is in our neuron network, why separate the mind? If the mind is higher than the neural network, then where is it?

Animals can only imagine things that actually exist; humans can imagine intersubjective things, which have real and powerful power, such as countries, companies, laws, etc.

People organize large-scale collaboration through fictional stories. This is the fundamental reason why human power is amplified and dominates the world. If you want to decipher the future of mankind, you must decipher all kinds of fictional imaginations that fail to make sense of the world.

70,000 years ago, the cognitive revolution allowed humans to start talking about things that only existed in human imagination, which could lead to the cooperation of hundreds and thousands of people.

Words allow people to organize society in an algorithmic way. Each person completes a small step, and the final important decision is judged by the entire algorithm. This is the essence of the bureaucracy; the state issues a piece of paper and forces citizens to use this piece of paper to pay taxes. No choice, but market develops

We should distinguish between reality and fiction. The status of reality is of course higher. The euro can be devalued but there is no pain. In the future, there will be more powerful fictional concepts and more totalitarian organizations. It is particularly important to distinguish between reality and fiction. Fictional stories make human beings Easier to work with, but at the cost of stories that also determine the goals of our cooperation

1. Religion is not the same as superstition. What you believe must be "truth", and what others believe will be superstition; 2. Religion is not supernatural. For people who believe in demons, gods, and elves, this is nature; 3. Religion is also It’s not a matter of whether you believe in “God”

Religion does not equal spirituality

Religion is an all-encompassing set of stories that lends superhuman legitimacy to human laws, norms, and values

The definition of religion lies in its social function rather than whether there is a god; Christianity, communism, and liberalism can all be regarded as a religion; the historical laws of communism are actually like the commandments of the Christian God

If science wants to create a viable human system, it needs the assistance of religion; it studies facts but does not make ethical judgments

Religion is not just about ethical judgments, it also includes factual statements

Science and religion are easier to compromise and cooperate than imagined: religion cares most about order, while science cares most about power.

Modern history is actually the process of reaching an agreement between science and a specific religion (humanism). Modern society believes in humanism, and science is not to question, but to realize its dogma.

"Modern" is a contract, the essence of which is: people give up meaning in exchange for power

Humanistic politics: voters can make the best choice; economics: the customer is always right; aesthetics: what looks beautiful is beautiful; ethics: do what feels right; education: think for yourself.

Classical Orthodoxy: Liberalism. Everyone is a unique person with experiences that will never be repeated

Branch One: Social Humanism. Socialism blames liberalism for focusing too much on one's own feelings and ignoring the experiences of others.

Branch Two: Evolutionary Humanism. The conflict of various experiences and feelings is inevitable and the best one wins

The foundation of liberalism is that man has free will, and this is a factual statement.

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According to the theory of evolution, all so-called "selections" of animals are responses to genetic codes.

Liberalism believes that everyone has a single, indivisible self

1. Biology is an algorithm. Every animal is a collection of evolved algorithms; 2. The function of the algorithm is not affected by the constituent materials; 3. As long as the facts are calculated, there is no difference between silicon-based and carbon-based

Whether algorithms or superhumans take over the world, liberalism will collapse

Humanity as a whole still has value, but individuals no longer have authority and most choices are governed by external algorithms;

Human beings have no value at all: algorithms become entities like companies and countries that control humans; what do useless people do, they can only live on drugs and playing games; humans are likely to be kept in captivity or eliminated because the system is smarter than humans.

The mechanism of the economy is to collect data about desires and abilities and then translate them into decisions. Capitalism won the Cold War not because it was more ethical or because God was angry with the Soviet Union, but because decentralized data processing was better than centralized at this stage.

Democracy and autocracy are essentially two opposing mechanisms for collecting and analyzing information; if data cannot be processed effectively, the noble institutions of the past such as elections, political parties, and parliaments may be eliminated; authoritarian regimes are also unable to cope with the speed and volume of data flow.

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Two commandments of dataism: connect more and more media, produce more and more information; connect everything to the system, including the heretics who don’t want to join

Experience has no value if it is not shared. People do not need and cannot find meaning from their hearts. They can only wait for algorithms to find meaning. When better algorithms and data appear, humans will be eliminated naturally. The Internet of Everything itself has a sacred meaning. Meaning; dataism is as much a threat to humans as humans are to other animals. Data doesn't care about our subjective needs.

1. Is biology really just algorithms, and life really just data processing?

2. Which one is more valuable, intelligence or consciousness?

3. When unconscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we do, what will happen to society, politics, and daily life?