This is a linkpost for https://twitter.com/MotionTsar/status/1776726715311767913

Grant Snider created this comic (which became a meme):

Richard Ngo extended it into posthuman/transhumanist literature:

That's cool, but I'd have gone for different categories myself.[1]
Here they are together with their explanations.

Top: Man vs Agency
(Other names: Superintelligence, Singularity, Self-improving technology, Embodied consequentialism.)
Because Nature creates Society creates Technology creates Agency.
At each step Man becomes less in control, due to his increased computational boundedness relative to the other.

Middle: Man vs Realities
(Other names: Simulation, Partial existence, Solomonoff prior, Math.)
Because

Man vs Self is the result of dissolving holistic individualism (no subagents in conflict) from Man vs Man.
Man vs Reality is the result of dissolving the Self boundary altogether from Man vs Self.
Man vs Realities is the result of dissolving the binary boundary between existence and non-existence from Man vs Reality. Or equivalently, the boundary between different [...]

The original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
April 6th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xv3tdX7TrpTXbSJPf/conflict-in-posthuman-literature

Linkpost URL:
https://twitter.com/MotionTsar/status/1776726715311767913

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

[Linkpost] “Conflict in Posthuman Literature” by Martín Soto

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