Geez that's funny, it wasn't that long ago autists like yourself were insisting the lockdown was never going to end and they were going to force 1000 different vaccines. Though just like nature, conspiracy theories must evolve in order to not die off.
I never made that specific claim, though. Obviously, the lockdowns couldn't last forever, because that would be political suicide. Stuff like the trucker protests showed that there are limits to how far they can go, and how much they can abuse people, before they snap.
Anyone who believes in God wouldn't believe that man is going to be replaced by machines because some fat jew in a funny outfit has a lot of money. All this whiz-bang "he's got factories bigger than cities where the robots build themselves" speculative fiction comes crashing down when the elites forget to program robots to make a simple screw that holds them all together. The world thrives when you have a vast intelligent mass of middle class individuals doing their part. It falls to nothing when a handful of elites have to manage everything. Klaus Schwab has the smartest people in the room. Okay. Do you think he would listen to them if they said he had to reverse his policies and instead nurture the White race? No, because he's evil and does what he does for evil reasons. All "mankind can be replaced" speculators are fundamentally atheist and anti-life and I won't listen to anyone who portrays Satan's triumph as inevitable.
That's not what I meant. Say you fought a successful revolution against these people, which is not inconceivable. What then? You've stepped into the Overclass's shoes, and inherited the technological, materialist cesspit they engineered. What do you do? Demolish all of it? Well, billions who are not completely off the grid and fully prepped will starve to death because we are simply that dependent on
just-in-time logistics to be alive at all. If you continue to develop advanced technology to patch the holes in the sinking ship, it is inevitable that, at some stage of "progress" during this century or the next, humans will be replaced.
A couple years later, Kurzgesagt came out with their own take on it.
People scoffed at that one, too. When these videos came out a few years ago, we didn't have anything even remotely like GPT-3, DALL-E, or MuseNet. There has been an explosion in technology. Where will these things be in another ten years? And ten years after that? You have to keep in mind, my perspective is - or was - that of someone who was a transhumanist and singularitarian, and I still do possess some of those same tendencies that shape my views. I've debated people about all of this many, many times before, for the past ten years. Each time, the response was the same.
Humans will never be replaced. People become indignant when they're told that we will, because of course they do. It's completely revolting for any normal person to think about. Even a good portion of atheists don't like it because it strikes them as anti-humanist. It's nihilistic to say that people will be replaced by AI. It seems to suggest that all our most cherished values are mere biological absurdities that will, in time, be trampled by the march of cold, unfeeling technology.
However, if we do allow this technological system to continue, it is absolutely inevitable that the human body will become obsolete. It costs too much to maintain. It's too fragile to explore space with. Governments the world 'round are struggling to see how they can afford to keep their welfare systems running when they have a population that is aging out and breeding at well below the replacement level. Our economy is a Ponzi scheme, literally. In order for welfare to work at all, there needs to be "new blood"; fresh investment of labor and taxes from a young workforce. You can't just make up infinite money from thin air, because then, nobody wants it. That's what inflation fundamentally means. Look at how much governments have tried clamping down on crypto in a bid to prevent capital flight.
There are Neo-Malthusians at the WEF who are very, very serious about slashing our consumption of natural resources (while, obviously, preserving the financial system). Here's one WEF guy talking about how humans could be engineered to be allergic to meat. He also wants to bioengineer people to make us smaller so we consume fewer calories:
As reprehensible as they may seem to us, it is still very much the case that these proposals are not unrealistic or infeasible from a technological perspective. In fact, as AI improves in the next twenty years, it will acquire the ability to engineer genes and proteins better than we can engineer them ourselves. And then, over time, people will be modified. And modified. And modified. In a few centuries, physical bodies will just become hardware to us. Something we pilot wirelessly from the comfort and security of the computer cores that house our actual minds. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if they die because they're replaceable. They'll have huge eyes to see in the dark, huge craniums, and be engineered to be resistant to cosmic radiation. Basically, they will be purpose-built organisms to survive and thrive in the confined environment of a flying saucer.
Hey guys, look. A time traveler from thousands of years into the future.
What it means to be post-human is to not actually be human at all. We perceive ourselves as minds trapped within the body of a decaying ape. What happens if you get rid of the ape, but preserve the mind? Well, there goes every last trace of your human identity. Our identity basically, fundamentally comes from our bodies. If we value that, we should be striving to preserve it, right now, and not throw it away while chasing after unattainable physical perfection.
You don't think this is possible because you still haven't read enough Kaczysnki. Unless you're willing to smash every goddamn thing and return to monke (which is arguably a reasonable course of action when faced with the brutal dehumanization of technology, but would still entail human suffering on an unprecedented scale), this process actually is inevitable.
Scientists are not going to stop working on ways to make the system more efficient, especially not in the middle of a crisis that pushes their abilities near the breaking point. Anyone who steps into the Overclass's shoes after a revolution would be faced with all of the same societal, technological, cultural, and resource issues, and, in all likelihood, end up funneled towards further technological "improvement" anyway. The alternative is to halt or reverse technological development, which would be absolutely catastrophic and cause greater loss of life than Pol Pot's agrarianism or Mao's Great Leap Forward put together. Basically all of our GDP growth of the past couple centuries is
owed to technological development.
We walk a razor's edge. If innovation slows even slightly, the economy will absolutely shit itself and collapse. And innovation
is slowing, in some ways. Why? Because humans are reaching our fucking limit. Our ability to discover new knowledge above and beyond what we already have is limited by our ability to correlate data. The bankers on Wall Street don't want the system to shit itself, because then their fortunes would evaporate. From their perspective, pouring money into AI research is a very sensible and astute investment. It doesn't matter to them that humans will be replaced. All that matters is keeping their unprecedented, enormous wealth intact. That's their incentive.
Within this decade, AI "experts" will be put to work, trawling papers, correlating more data than any human ever could, discovering all the little things we missed. In the decade after, AIs will be writing their own research papers from scratch without human intervention. The things they will describe will be beyond human understanding. The technology thus produced will be outside the scope of human comprehension. Devices with metamaterials in them that are fine-tuned on the molecular level to twist and bend the laws of physics will become commonplace. As these AIs undergo recursive self-improvement, eventually, the things they produce will more closely resemble magic than technology. Unaugmented humans would be reduced to their pets, at best.
The Elites aren't going to be the ones putting screws in anything. AIs will design the robots, and they won't forget a single detail. In fact, when you set AI to the task of designing things, they produce structures that resemble organic ones. Things that a human would never engineer on purpose.
Why do you think Elon Musk is so desperate to stuff electrodes in people's heads? Because. It's the atheist rapture, and he doesn't want to be left behind.
