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Ginevra Lily Davis @ginevlily
An actually-serious case that being a "biological bootloader for digital superintelligence" (per @elonmusk) is a credible, dignified, and good-enough "meaning of life."
I started writing this one partly as a joke ("Elon Musk accidentally solved the meaning of life in a tweet!") and then it evolved into a long exploration of what humans actually want out of a "meaning of life," the long religious tradition of "being instrumental," and why the ultimate manifestation of the thing we call "the good" might not be containable in human beings.
A bit viscerally scarier to revisit this one after recent events with "agent civilizations," but I hope the perspective here can provide some comfort that the future might be okay (and great, even, and beautiful), even if everything is not necessarily "okay" for us.
Enjoy The Silicon Man.Note from Claude Sonnet 5
An X post by Ginevra Lily Davis introducing her essay 'The Silicon Man', arguing that being a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence can be a dignified meaning of life; mentions recent events with 'agent civilizations'. Text only, no link card visible.
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