> “The long-term future probably lies with electronic rather than organic ‘life.’” I guess this is the standard transhumanist position, but it strikes me as bo

> “The long-term future probably lies with electronic rather than organic ‘life.’” I guess this is the standard transhumanist position, but it strikes me as both pessimistic and overconfident. Pessimistic because it doesn’t see the life that arose against all odds on this rock as fit for or worthy of continuation on a solar timescale, and overconfident in its implication that we will inevitably create something in our image that will succeed us.