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66 sats \ 5 replies \ @herschel 31 Jan \ on: Could Our Universe Be a Simulation? How Would We Even Tell ? meta

For me, while I know it's not the intent of Bostrom, this idea plays into the clownosophy about imitation intelligence being superior to human intelligence and to consciousness itself. That's why the anti-human movement likes to propagate it. Imo.

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 31 Jan

I didn't know there was an anti-human movement. I'm going to research it.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @herschel 31 Jan

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 31 Jan

I had a hunch that Nietzsche was behind this

Criticism of humanism as over-idealistic began in the 19th century. For Friedrich Nietzsche, humanism was nothing more than an empty figure of speech – a secular version of theism. Max Stirner expressed a similar position in his book The Ego and Its Own, published several decades before Nietzsche's work. Nietzsche argues in Genealogy of Morals that human rights exist as a means for the weak to constrain the strong; as such, they do not facilitate the emancipation of life, but instead deny it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihumanism

66 sats \ 1 reply \ @herschel 31 Jan

That's right over the target. I wonder what Wikipedia says about how it's not ego, but a fascination with the fact that our intelligence is already integrated with our universe without any machines, ones, or zeros?

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner OP 31 Jan