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