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spriteless's avatar

Oof, that's rough. If you want some TESCREAL stuff that's less yucky, then Robin Hanson's Age of Em nonfiction https://ageofem.com/ and Eliezer Yudkowsky's Three Worlds Collide novella https://robinhanson.typepad.com/files/three-worlds-collide.pdf are ok reads. But even if I always imagine any promise of paradise is a carrot dangled in front of gullible to continue a never ending grind, you've also shown it's crappy idea in and of itself.

Hey, have you ever seen The Good Place? That's a TV series morally illiterate people should watch. As a starter course in thinking about goodness. It starts with familiar sitcom structure, and builds from there... eventually they get to a pretty ok idea of heaven.

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Gerardo Casas's avatar

So... removing meaning from the world made it anthropocentric? Like, now we rewrote the fabric of the universe, meaning of life, Heaven if you will, as exactly our way of life but without imperfection? Why is the tought of idling forever on christian heaven less ghastly than picturing us as an infinite swarm of children in Absolute Safe Capsules? Is it the cost and sacrifice needed to achieve that? Is the guilt of knowing that everything bad that happens will be our fault when we have the power to build Dyson spheres monthly?

Well, that doesn't matter as we wont be able to accelerate any further anyways.

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