Soon humanity may reach out to the galaxy and spread ourselves to every world in it, but in the billions and billions of years to come on those billions and billions of worlds, humanity shall surely diverge down many roads and posthuman pathways.
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Posthuman Pathways
Episode 470; October 24, 2024
Editor: Tim Lusko
Produced, Narrated & Written: Isaac Arthur
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there is one possible way to alleviate eternal boredome. first the prerequisite is to be in a sort of eternal stagnation where you get immortality, but you don't become anything more complex than a normal mind, and you continue to perceive reality as would a mortal human would…of course you can make your physical body into anything, but the baseline consciousness would be more or less untouched outside fitting whatever body you put yourself into. so with this as the prerequisite for average immortal, any given individual could spend eternity simply consuming media, and producing new media.
media in itself could be a commodity that everyone produces and trades in a new form of bartering.
learning would gear heavy towards learning as many languages as possible; learning as many art skills as possible, with the main ones being writing, animation, programming; and learning as many practical trade skills as possible to support all the infrastructures for the civilization.
i think there could be a time when a civilization may voluntarily choose to stagnate itself technologically and focus more on developing and progressing culturally. new ideas, new trends, new fashions, new aesthetics, new art and media and games, and new hobbies and leisure activities.
So many ways to become something else, or many somethings, through copies of self. Welp, I would opt for dragon body. Must be many-meters long, stylish, durable and armed, like a dragon should. Now that would be a way to spend eternity!
Genuinely sad this channel just devolved into an AI slop factory
Epically mind-blowing.
I inhibited myself from saying "literally".
Hey Isaac, long time viewer. Have you ever considered actually make a full length video going over some of the 40k tech that you believe could actually exist within outfitting understanding of physics?
HOUSE OF SUNS IS A MASTERPIECE
Love this stuff! Thank you!
id happily leave earth by myself to live in a dome if it meant never having to hear the dumbfks and paid off gov/pharma shill doctors whine about my lack of face diaper. inmates and cowards running the asylum, bring the comet already.
9:45 look up 1st and last men, and all tomorrows
I would love to see episodes about fission, pulse, and fusion propulsion, since these are essencialy the 3 steps up from chemical rockets (solid, hybrid, liquid) and what I would call the nuclear trio ( fission, pulse, fusion) and their variants
When they leave the black doctor who off the video 🥲🥲🥲
Yeah, I do think modifications to better people's life will happen hopefully soon, but to become a space brain seems very iffy in my sense simply because of the need of purpose.
Eternity is a very long time and you will eventually run out of stuff to do before that time is up, especially if you are stuck to a star for power and unable to move.
The space madness is always lurking.
If humans avoid extinction, transforming bodies into dark energy would allow FTL travel across multiple dimensions, with no need for artifical gravity.
What about Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men", and "Star Maker"?
Isaac is so extremely optimistic about the near and far future of humanity. He talks of curing mortality in a century and I don’t think we will have homelessness or much else solved in a century😂. Excellent video indeed.
Paula Myo looks disgusted by Qatux in the illustration
I saw a video about "all tomorrows" not to be confused for a random sentence but an actual book-pop up aside this one which makes sense because that's posthuman
I own every book by Reynolds. Have been with him since Revelation Space was published. One of my favorites, and my favorite of authors of my generation.
I now want a post-human future where all the humans are posts.
I want to live long enough to see this happen.
That would be such a great death metal album name…
House of Suns really was amazing.