Aleks Krotoski

They were all transhumanists and longevity researchers.

So that movement within the bubble that is Silicon Valley grew and grew and grew.

And now I would say that there is a huge proportion of the people who are operating in Silicon Valley as employees all the way up to the CEO office who would describe themselves as transhumanist, who see the singularity as something that we're seeking to pursue, that superintelligence is in fact, as Elon Musk described it, very close to his philosophy of life.

And I realized that actually there are so many people who identify as transhumanists and who identify as singletarians that I realized that actually what I really needed to do was I needed to understand exactly what is it that they imagine for the future so that we can say no.

Well, the good news is that we will have all uploaded ourselves to the cloud and we're all going to be on server farms on Jupiter.

So we don't need food.

So we won't need food.

We're going to be living in bliss and delight on server farms and our value is going to be pure happiness.

It is a particular worldview.

It's a very utilitarian worldview.

And for the people who decide not to upload themselves to the cloud, for the people who decide not to stick a Neuralink interface, digital interface on their cortex in order to better communicate with the artificial intelligences, for all of those people, they're going to be fine and they're going to live forever.

But for the rest of us...

We're just going to not be part of the party.

Okay.

We're just going to fade away.

Right.

And we don't have any say and it's not our jam anymore because they have taken us to the next step of humanity.

Exactly.

So I guess we won't need those things, but we will still get them.

They will still be, if they're needed, somebody will design some kind of system that will do that for us in the cloud, I guess.