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Updated: 2020-03-28

What’s an angel? A human who paid $1B to become immortal (other super powers cost extra), and typically lives in “Heaven” (a space station in front of the moon). I made this up. What’s a singularity? A nerdy science fiction fantasy where smart machines start making smarter machines, ad infinitum, and technology runs off without us. I did not make this up. It’s supposed to be taken seriously, since it comes from “futurists.” Read The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil (if you can find it used). I don’t believe the singularity will happen, but no matter. The real question is, what kind of science fiction about the future do we want to make real? What consequences should we consider? What’s important to us? What do we want to retain through this expected transformation? What’s a human? Why should humans live, or should they? Why have society? Why have work? Why have money? Do we like being human? Why are we alive now? bla bla bla, et cetera et cetera. If technology proceeds in the direction it’s headed, the old answers won’t be valid. These are philosophical questions, but they are not idle intellectual games. One day, they will be a matter of life and death.