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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Optimistic. Even if we all die, consciousness can evolve again. Even if we end up tortured for all eternity by robots, after a few million years we’ll be godlike and able to transcend that reality. Those who would be able to create it recognize this fact, and so there’s a mechanism by which the most intelligent are most aware of the inescapability of karma.

Given the perfection of the information ecosystem in its most abstract form, I predict increased pleasure and joy and decreased betrayal and suffering as time goes on.

Might be right in the near term, but everything will be okay.

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Even if we all die, consciousness can evolve again.

Yay! Time to re-evolve and make all the same mistakes again! Infinite suffering, forever!