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  • Sam Bankman-Fried

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  • ape-brained meat sack

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  • ape-brained meat sack, taken from Elise's book

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• comparable to Ernest Becker's description of the human condition
• in his book The Denial of Death
  • quote:
    • "Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever."

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• the comparison is apt as one of the goals of transhumanism is to use technology to conquer death
• From this perspective, we might argue that transhumanist aspirations have been with humanity for as long as medicine has intervened to extend life and human wellbeing

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  • aped-brained meat sack

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  • ape-brained meat sack