Many people don't want to live in a crazy sci-fi world, and I predict I will be one of them.

1. People in the past have mourned technological transformation, and they saw less in their life than I will in mine.[1]
2. It's notoriously difficult to describe a sci-fi utopia which doesn't sound unappealing to almost everyone.[2]
3. I have plans and goals which would be disrupted by the sci-fi stuff.[3]

In short: I want to live an ordinary life — mundane, normal, common, familiar — in my biological body on Earth in physical reality. I'm are not okay with being killed even if I learn that, orbiting a distant black hole 10T years in the future, is a server running a simulation of my brain in a high-welfare state.

Maybe we have something like a "Right to Normalcy". This isn't a legal right, but maybe a moral right. The kind of right that means we shouldn't airdrop iphones on North Sentinel Island.

And that reminds me -- what do we actually do with the North Sentinelese? Do we upgrade them into robot gods, or do they continue their lives? How long do we sentinelize them? As long as we [...]

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