It's a cryptofascist org. James C Bennett, one of the founders, is a columnist that promotes "anglo exceptionalism" (white supremacy)

James C Bennett, one of the founders of this org is a somewhat prominent fascist. Can we not.

Read Iain M Banks books and invent new absurdly contrived sports and arts, maybe study and practice the sciences and technologies invented by the machines just to test the limit of the human mind.

Honestly whatever we want within our human limits and then abandoning our own humanity (in the narrowest sense of the term) to find new limits.

You can't fool me. That is a feather and you, OP, are clearly molting.

As with most of this sort of question, no. The premise is reactionary and the conclusion is totalizing. Some people might merge into hiveminds. Some people might duplicate or divide themselves into copies which then network with each other, but to assume that all people will radically alter themselves in some specific way is not realistic.

Also who says we want to "beat AI."

We have been post-scarcity for about a century. We're currently living under what is known as artificial scarcity.

Slaps button on desk

"You should read Conquest of Bread"

I feel like an editor must have made them change the lead because it appears to be about active support structures instead of space elevators.

Honestly it's a tragedy that so many forward-thinking writers are trapped under the thumb of a corporate management culture that spent the past 20 years purging everyone with more than half a brain.

"--a strategy game which requires building trust, negotiation and cooperation."

Have you ever actually played the game? ಠ_ಠ

Not really sure, but that would make sense with the caveat that Heinlein kinda blows and Stranger in a Strange Land was a terrible book that promotes fascist ideation and is borderline unreadable even to someone who chewed through so many of his other works.

Edit, because the thread is locked: "Grok" is from Stranger in a Strange Land.

I don't think that's what anyone here is about and humans make terrible batteries

UberEats will finally have a more efficient way to deprive me of my paycheck and Alexa will start bullying you into buying Tide Pods

OrchOR FTW

This has big implications for the nature of consciousness, the pointlessness of cryogenics, and the folly of digital mind upload attempts.

I'm sorry but, "DiL-piKL?"

Didn't ask, don't care

Your dream. Not mine, and not most people's. Your threat of suicide doesn't sway me either. Using your suicidal tendency and other people's empathy to force their compliance shows that there is nothing in this universe as disgusting as what lies within your heart.

Kindly fuck off

You bore me and you're totalizing. Other people aren't obligated to pursue your happiness and the fact that you think you can tell me I should indicates that you lack the ethical foundation to be making such determinations.

I hope you never have any authority over others as you are already admitting you would abuse it.

Also, destiny isn't a thing. That's magical thinking. We don't do that here.

Honestly it doesn't interest me at all. We're already running up against limits imposed by human physiology. People who can take the overstimulation tend to not be our best or brightest.