INGELLO OWN PROJECTS
INGELLO 82 - THE HARDEST MISSION
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1. AUTOMATION AT SCALE
The first step is global automation. A mass of problems and suffering comes from having to do cyclical, grinding, machine-like work; from being unable to get a decent education even when you can pay for it; from helplessness in the face of illness and damage to body and mind; from how hard it is to run a business without conflict and to create decent jobs; from inequality born of dependence on a convoluted and wretched economic model; and from greed, because it seems there will not be enough to go round, although this planet alone holds more than we could sensibly spend. Any mind - technical or creative alike - should be aimed at the hardest problems of humanity, and to make that possible we must build our own replacement for everything routine and inessential. For the sake of the hardest mission any consciousness could need: real freedom from death and suffering.
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2. RADICAL LONGEVITY
The second step is to give people the chance to live longer. The grounds for believing that technologies allowing a thousandfold longer life will be mastered soon are not a fairy tale; they are a possibility that grows harder to doubt. Anyone who follows the field knows the scientific and technical community has been working in this direction for a long time. People once died at twenty or thirty and that was the norm, but today, with the gradual progress of science and technology, we live nearly a century and save millions from disease and death. We are ALREADY extending life radically, and that has to be multiplied. Progress keeps accelerating, and thanks to automation it is within our power to focus attention on the riddle of a more durable consciousness - and to extend human life substantially, by millennia.
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3. TECHNICAL IMMORTALITY
The third step is to obtain a long-term way of existing in the universe. Unlike the previous step, it is too early to say what this will look like, because it depends heavily on how longevity is achieved. Whether it turns out to be a medical instrument or cyborgisation, digitising the brain or a magic pill, a discovery in psychology or a solution to the global problems of economics - nobody knows. Billions of people and machines focused on a single problem will most likely generate a whole range of ideas and projects, and if even one of them works, that will be enough.
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4. A SCIENTIFIC PATH TO REVIVAL
Step four - the most fantastical - is a second chance for those born in the past. All of us have lost family and friends. But looking at humanity as a whole, every day and every second people die, most of whom would want to go on living if they had the choice and were free of suffering. How many of the greatest minds have become nothing but history. Minds whose work we use every single day while taking pride in this technological, complex world. What would have become of all of us if they were alive? At the present stage such goals look like nonsense, and so they are. But comparing what we know in the modern world with what was known at other stages of evolution, it becomes obvious that we have advanced enormously and have become genuine gods next to earlier forms of development. And not through slow, blind evolution but through technological progress. We know little about what time is, about how other dimensions, matter and space in general are arranged. And there is no proof that irreversible processes exist. There are complex, tangled and chaotic systems, and it is within our power to understand how they work.
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5. FREE AND ENDLESS CREATION
Step five is to give every mind maximum freedom and an isolated space for the endless realisation of creative potential. Let each one invent their ideal universe with whichever minds they choose. Or in complete solitude, isolated from everyone. Each has their own infinity and is free to raise it to any power and any form, just as they are free to make a genuinely conscious decision to stop existing, if that is possible at all. Some will want to create new worlds, some to unravel every secret of matter, some will grasp the deepest philosophical questions about what perception is, many will party endlessly and mightily with friends - better than any rock stars of any era and more interesting than the most intellectual bands - and someone will simply enjoy life in a house by the river with their family and friends. Or perhaps ALL of it together, in turn or even at once, for what do we know about simultaneity... This step means the end of the hardest mission humanity ever conceived, and that is precisely the true beginning of EVERYTHING.
THINK THIS IS A JOB FOR SCIENTISTS?
NO! We need everyone. Absolutely everyone. People of the humanities and people of the exact sciences. Creative people and technical people. People who can build complex systems. People who create simple masterpieces and ideas. People who create jobs, products and ideologies. People able to draw attention, spark excitement or motivate. People ready to speak, shout, sing and write about the hardest mission there is. The only thing that unites us is a sincere wish not to wait, and to help the common mission.
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