“Fixing” the future, in a way that renders human beings completely redundant and unnecessary even to themselves, isn’t fixing anything. It’s creating a problem of unlimited scope.
If that’s the ultimate outcome of, say, producing superhuman minds—whether they’re somehow enslaved to human preferences or not—then we’re trying very hard to create a world in which the only rational treatment of humanity is extinction. Whether imposed from without or from within, voluntarily, is irrelevant.
Or, to put it another way:
“Fixing” the future, in a way that renders human beings completely redundant and unnecessary even to themselves, isn’t fixing anything. It’s creating a problem of unlimited scope.
If that’s the ultimate outcome of, say, producing superhuman minds—whether they’re somehow enslaved to human preferences or not—then we’re trying very hard to create a world in which the only rational treatment of humanity is extinction. Whether imposed from without or from within, voluntarily, is irrelevant.