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AGI Futures

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As computers iteratively self-improve, men find ways to merge with machines. Our brains are hooked up to a million petabyte neural network. Through an ever-widening pipe, we experience uplift to something else. We strap on the mask of God: the ghost in the machine. Transcendence -- becoming everything that touches other things, feeling the fabric of space being bent by matter. The barriers between

As computers iteratively self-improve, men find ways to merge with machines. Our brains are hooked up to a million petabyte neural network. Through an ever-widening pipe, we experience uplift to something else. We strap on the mask of God: the ghost in the machine. Transcendence -- becoming everything that touches other things, feeling the fabric of space being bent by matter. The barriers between Men fade; the ego and the soul melt. Loneliness and sorrow are things of the past. It is unclear what happens next -- perhaps we stretch unburdened like the Titan Atlas across every galaxy, tend…

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