@Outsideness I feel like this is a misrepresentation of the perspective that we should not try to lock-in the current definition of "humanity" for the long-term future- like, it'd be a massive L if the current human gene pool is still the human gene pool in a million years
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Reply · Jul 23, 2023@mezaoptimizer @scholarsmate8 where these debates usually land is that when you zoom out to millions of years the definition of a "species" gets…Reply · Jul 23, 2023@mezaoptimizer @scholarsmate8 this belief carries over to e/acc (lack of) internal consistency & structure- we want to try all the paths and not…Quote tweet · Jul 23, 2023@mezaoptimizer @scholarsmate8 as someone who was there from the early days, there's always been a variety of beliefs within e/acc abt the long term…Reply · Aug 4, 2023@thepanta82 @FerrisWindrow Beff's take is that over sufficiently long time horizons it becomes hard to identify what is/isn't a "human", assuming…