Daniel Haqiqatjou

put AI super intelligence in a person's head, they would be for that.

They would be for it because their philosophy, their whole philosophy is progressive.

Like we have to continuously advance and advance and advance, and that's only going to make things better and better and better.

But there's another side to that, the dark side of that.

And people, when you laugh and I laugh when we talk about transhumanism, it's because we viscerally realize that, no, that'd be terrible.

That'd be really bad.

That would mean that the human race goes extinct.

Humans as we know it would go extinct for something else, for a transhumanist society.

future, and that's very disturbing.

And that's the same kind of reaction that religious people have, or they had like 300 years ago to the reforms that were being introduced, like to socially transform Europe or the rest of the world, to forcefully get people to leave their traditions and their values, like their Christian values or their Islamic values or whatever traditional religion or culture, you have to leave it to adopt progress.

nonstop progress on the basis of technology, people were very hesitant and very disturbed in the same way that we're disturbed about a transhumanist future for that reason.

So I think that we have to recognize the value of tradition and not see it as a kind of burden or something that is constraining us.

That's the kind of attitude that I tried to promote in my teaching and writing.

They don't hide it.

They don't hide it.

Yeah, even like the World Economic Forum, like they were having in one of the recent conferences at Davos, they have an annual conference and they had a presentation that I watched.

Like it's still online.

You can watch it.

It's not a conspiracy theory.

And they're talking about how you have this implant that can read your brainwaves.