People mumble about the economy and the job market but the simple truth of the matter is that people have progressively been obsoleting others and themselves for decades ever since the advent of the computer. Is this a good time to mention that I do not trust various scientific attempts like true artificial intelligence?

Anyway, when a machine can tell you if something tastes good or not, it’s only a matter of time until machines tell you everything. Ah actually isn’t it already that time? I mean what are you doing right now? So machines already tell us everything (you probably didn’t know this but at the least they are telling us whether our water is supposedly safe to drink or not and probably have been for 20 years), I guess what really is only a matter of time would be when we are all ourselves machines (there must be some portion of people that are mechanical if not necessarily computerized already).

That reminds me of a severely autistic girl I knew who was a big “transhumanism” advocate. As a foot note while I don’t imagine that everyone with Asperger syndrome is a transhumanist, or that vice-versa everyone that’s enthusiastic about transhumanism has some aspect like that, this person certainly knew quite a few who were. Personally I think that it would be better for humans to disappear than to only be able to live on as cyborgs. But at the same time if someone offered me a new body on my deathbed I’d probably take it.

Because you know, it’s not really that humans want to live forever. It’s just that they don’t want to disappear.