🧩 Philosophy 7h ago · Mikhail Samin

Today might be my last birthday

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I was born exactly 26 years ago.For the first time, I have a birthday that might be my last. I’m writing this to increase the chance it isn’t.A hundred thousand years ago, our ancestors appeared in a savanna with nothing but bare hands. Since then, we made nuclear bombs and landed on the moon. We dominate the planet not because we have sharp claws or teeth but because of our intelligence.Alan Turing argued that once machine thinking methods started, they’d quickly outstrip human capabilities, an

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