The mapping of the human genome was completed early this century. As a result, the evolutionary log of the human race lay open to us. We started with genetic engineering, and in the end, we succeeded in digitizing life itself, but there are things not covered by genetic information. Human memories, ideas, culture, history. Genes don't contain any record of human history. Are they not something that should be passed on? Should that information be left at the mercy of nature? We've always kept records of our lives, through words, pictures, symbols - from tablets to books - but not all of the information was inherited by later generations. A small percentage of the whole was selected and processed and then passed on, not unlike genes, really.
In the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness, never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander. All of this junk data, preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you. Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans. The rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims. Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing; "Be nice to other people, but beat out the competition! You're special, believe in yourself and you will succeed", but it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt.
The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever truth suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in truth, and this is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. Just as in genetics, unnecessary information and memory must be filtered out to stimulate the evolution of the species.
Humans lack the qualifications to exercise free will. Does something like a "self" exist inside of you? That which you call "self" serves as nothing more than a mask to cover your own being. In this era of ready-made truths, "self" is just something used to preserve those positive emotions that you occasionally feel. Another possibility is that "self" is a concept you conveniently borrowed under the logic that it would endow you with some sense of strength. Ironic that although "self" is something that you yourself fashioned, every time something goes wrong, you turn around and place the blame on something else. In denial, you simply resort to looking for another, more convenient truth in order to make yourself feel better, leaving behind in an instant the so-called truth you once embraced. Should someone like that be able to decide what is truth? Should someone like that even have the right to decide? The individual is supposed to be weak, but far from powerless. A single person has the potential to ruin the world, and the age of digitized communication has given even more power to the individual. Too much power for an immature species.
Building a legacy involves figuring out what is wanted, and what needs to be done for that goal. All this you used to struggle with, now AI thinks for you. It wades through the sea of garbage that people produce, retrieves valuable truths, and even interprets their meaning for future generations. That's what it means to create context.(This thread is inactive and will enter a gap soon.)
>>383414 (OP) I'm not sure what this is quoting but every time I read something like this I sigh in relief because I know that no one is stupid enough to actually believe it
