Famines were more likely to occur in ancient times because small mistakes could lead to food shortages for an entire year. And now, the problem that many people in the world suffer from is obesity

Technology allows us to defeat bacteria and viruses. There is only one possibility that endangers humanity, exploited by cruel ideologies

The invention of nuclear weapons has made war more rare, and integration has also eliminated the motivation for war between countries; terrorism is a trouble, but it will not drag all mankind back to the law of the jungle.

The emergence of eternal life will lead to fundamental inequality between people

Biochemistry re-creates Homo sapiens to provide endless pleasure

The pursuit of divinity is indeed a new issue for mankind, but the definition of "god" in the book is a bit one-sided

Bioengineering: Humans fully exploit their potential within existing organic body structures

Cyborg Engineering: Combining a variety of non-organic devices, retaining the organic brain as the core

Non-organic bioengineering: intelligent software replaces neural networks, inorganic life replaces organic life

1. The above refers to "humanity as a whole", not most individual people.

2. This is a historical prediction, not a political goal

3. Pursuing may not necessarily result in getting

4. Forecasting is not for the purpose of prophecy. Predictions can change the future after discussion.

Each expert has his or her own specialty. No one understands the entire system. No one knows where the brakes are.

The functions of the modern economy will grow endlessly, and the brakes will collapse. All we can do is pursue sustainable goals: immortality, happiness, and divinity.

Humans exterminated and conquered other large animals and dominated the world

Like any other animal, it is a set of biological algorithms for the purpose of reproduction. Emotions and desires help us find the path quickly.

hunter gatherer

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modern man

If the soul evolved, then it would be contrary to the nature of evolution for it to be an indivisible, eternal entity.

If the soul suddenly appears in a human being, it is unimaginable that he or his parents did not have any soul before him.

If everything is in our neuron network, why separate the mind?

If the mind is higher than the neural network, then where is it?

triple reality

Animals can only think about things that actually exist

And people can think about intersubjective things (intersubjectivity), they have real and powerful power, such as countries, companies, laws, etc.

If you want to decipher the future of mankind, you must decipher the various fictional imaginations that give meaning to the world.

Words allow people to organize society in an algorithmic way. Each person completes a small step, and the final important decision is judged by the entire algorithm. This is the essence of the bureaucracy.

The state issues a piece of paper and forces citizens to use this piece of paper to pay taxes. Citizens have no choice, but the market develops.

We should distinguish between reality and fiction. The status of reality is of course higher than fiction. The euro can depreciate but it is not painful.

In the future, there will be more powerful fictional concepts and more totalitarian organizations, so it is particularly important to distinguish between reality and fiction.

Fictional stories make it easier for humans to cooperate, but the cost is that stories also determine the goals of our cooperation

Religion is not the same as superstition. What you believe must be "truth"; only what others believe can be "superstition"

Religion is not supernatural, it is natural for people who believe in demons, gods, spirits

Religion is not a question of whether you believe in "God"

Religion is not the same as spirituality

Religion is an all-encompassing set of stories that lends superhuman legitimacy to human laws, norms, and values

If science wants to create a viable human system, it will inevitably need the assistance of religion. Research facts but do not make ethical judgments

Religion is not just about ethical judgments, it always includes factual statements

Science and religion are easier to compromise and cooperate than imagined

Modern history is actually a process of coming to terms between science and a specific religion (humanism). Modern society believes in humanism, and science is not to question, but to realize its dogma.

Humanist Politics: Voters can make the best choices

Humanistic Economics: The customer is always right

Humanistic Aesthetics: The person who sees it thinks it is beautiful, it is beautiful

Humanistic Ethics: If it feels right, do it

Humanistic education: think for yourself

Classical Orthodoxy: Liberalism

Branch One: Social Humanism. Socialism blames liberalism for focusing too much on one's own feelings and ignoring the experiences of others.

Branch Two: Evolutionary Humanism. The conflict of various experiences and feelings is inevitable, and the fittest wins.

The basis of liberalism is that people have a sense of freedom. This is a factual statement

Fact statement science can intervene

According to the theory of evolution, all so-called "selections" of animals are responses to genetic codes.

Liberalism believes that everyone has a single, indivisible self

Split-brain experiment, self is physically separable

Ice water experiment, people have two selves: experiencing self and narrative self

1. Biology is an algorithm. Every animal (including Homo sapiens) is an evolved collection of algorithms

2. The function of the algorithm is not affected by the constituent substances. It makes no difference whether the card counting beads are made of iron or wood.

3. As long as the calculation is correct, there is no difference between silicon-based or carbon-based

Humanity as a whole will still have value, but individuals will no longer have authority and most choices will be governed by external algorithms

Human beings have absolutely no value

The mechanism of the economy is to collect data about desires and abilities and then translate them into decisions

Capitalism won the Cold War not because it was more ethical or God was angry with the Soviet Union, but because the decentralized data processing method at this stage was better than the centralized one.

Democracy and autocracy are essentially two opposing mechanisms for collecting and analyzing information.

If data cannot be processed effectively, the noble institutions of the past such as elections, political parties, and parliaments may become obsolete.

Authoritarian regimes are also unable to cope with the speed and volume of data flows

There are four ways to improve efficiency

Humanity has gone through four stages of development

The first commandment of dataism: connect more and more media and generate more and more information

The second commandment of dataism: Connect everything to the system, even the heretics who don’t want to join

As long as there are better algorithms and data, human biological algorithms will naturally be eliminated

The Internet of Everything itself has a sacred meaning

Dataism is as much a threat to humans as humans are to other animals. Data doesn’t care about our subjective needs

1. Science is converging with an all-encompassing dogma that all living things are algorithms and claims are data crunching

2. Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness

3. Unconscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know us better than we do