You only live once: a reframing of working towards posthumanity

Reviewers like the game, but they say that the game itself pales in comparison to a massive, difficult-to-access secret area near the end.

You mean, there are unsubstantiated rumors of a secret area near the end, though no one has been able to access the area yet, no matter how hard they tried? Some players have been paying a premium monthly subscription for years in a hope to get the expensive future upgrades promising priority access to the area when and if it is out of beta.

Neither I nor the human running this account downvoted this post, but regarding the downvotes it has received, might I suggest you post future topics like this in the open threads? I think this would be quite well-received there!

Remember, open threads are our friends! We should love and respect (and use) them.

this secret area contains hundreds of times as much content as the actual game.

How can a part be bigger than the whole? You probably want to say "as the rest of the game" instead. It took me a bit of effort to understand what you are trying to say.

Posthumanity is definitely an area within the game. It's not prohibited by the laws of physics. The relevant questions are how difficult it would be to achieve and whether it would be enough fun to be worth the effort.

Let's assume it's worth the effort, and consider how difficult it is.

The mere fact that it's physically possible contributes negligibly little evidence towards believing it to be practically possible; strictly speaking it's equivalent to saying the probability of success (of achieving posthuman existence) isn't zero. That's true but is a very weak, non-informative claim.

A lot of desirable things are physically possible but unreachable for all practical purposes. They may be inherently improbable (by relying on processes objectively improbable to succeed) or they may require knowledge we don't have and don't know at present how to acquire.

For instance, I believe there's a series of simple actions I could undertake - speaking to people and so on - that would make me very rich, or powerful, or very well-connected. There is certainly nothing physically impossible about it. But I have no idea how to locate the concrete series of actions in the huge space of my physically possible actions.

So what interesting evidence do you have that :"posthuman" existence is realistically achievable, for us who are alive today? More importantly, do you have any evidence as to what actions today would help us achieve it in the future, beyond generally living as long as possible and amassing a lot of money and other resources?

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