I came across these forecasters saying that AI will make humans obsolete (or kill us all) in just a few years. (The conclusion to that piece is fantastic - below.)
Yet none of the AI End-Time Doomers have actually changed their lives. They are living as they did five, ten, twenty years ago.
The same is true of (western versions of) God. To repeat a blog from a year ago:
I've experienced moments of extraordinary ecstasy. If I really, truly believed that when I died I would feel like that all the time, I would look forward to death. Heck, I would actively yearn for death! And while I would be sad when someone important to me died, that would be offset by my joy for them.
God aside, I would jump at the chance to be in Nozick's Experience Machine, assuming Anne would be able to be in an experience machine too. (Why)
Keep in mind for all the many flavors of Doomers:
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