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How exactly was he better? Is it just because he wasn't backed by Russia? I guess so; fair enough, I suppose, if that's your only metric.

True; but Poroshenko was no better in that regard.

Wanna explain why?

Depends on how you look at it. One way is that the body is an imperfect vessel that decays with use and over time, while the soul is stuck trying to utilize that vessel as best it can until it eventually fails and the soul is forced to move on; with the point of it all being for it to learn from...

Very little, except as a comparison to illustrate that you do not understand what you are advocating for.

You're assuming they actually want to do that, instead of let the Russians bleed themselves dry in Ukraine; but let's not start another Ukraine invasion derail, okay? And I don't believe you actually understand what a Butlerian Jihad would actually entail; anymore than the average regressive...

I think something needs to be made clear to those seriously considering a "Butlerian Jihad" as a response to automation; you are just straight up saying that you want to go full Pol Pot and murder me, as well as millions of other people because you think that'll save you from the Terminators. Or...

Nobody respects the threat of nuclear weapons now; what makes you think they'd be able to use it to discourage people from developing sophisticated AI? Heck; what makes you think the people with the nukes won't just develop AI anyways, because mutually assured destruction? And even if anyone...

Over my dead body, you Luddite lunatic; which is exactly why any attempt at a Butlerian Jihad in real life is destined to fail. It only worked in Dune because all of humanity united as one to make it happen; that's not going to happen here.

Now see, that's the same sort of quitter's talk that got us into this mess in the first place.

And yet most of them aren't interested in funding medical research that might actually give it to them. No; they think doing things like injecting themselves with the blood of young people will do the trick, because they're superstitious morons.

Which begs the question; why are they're so obsessed with digital immortality, when biological immortality would be far easier and quicker to achieve, and doesn't come with any existential questions like is it actually you, or just a soulless copy?

In their hearts, they believe themselves our masters.