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And you missed my point

> The point is that just as the car replaced the horse, programs on computers are set to replace the human mind

My point is this is not inherently a bad thing. At some point either the human mind is overtaken by another species or AI. We must learn to accept this inevitability.

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Right now we are not so much choosing to replace ourselves with machines as stumbling into it through hubris and ignorance. If the argument is we should accept our demise to make way for something better, we should be more explicit and deliberate about that. Most people are not imagining that future. And there's not convincing reasons to believe our current path will lead to something "better".

I think you're right that I misread your first two paragraphs though. Sorry.

That sounds pretty bad to me. "At some point" would probably be millions of years in the future, but you're ready to force the issue this decade. If you asked everyone in a developed country what they think about completely upending life as they know it and replacing it with something unknown; that might be better, or might be horrifically worse, we'll just have to see what happens; most people would be strongly opposed to that proposition.

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