I think assuming they were all men is a little sexist. [ she shrugs ] Gods and the people who believe themselves to be gods are kind of two very different things.
And women with delusions of divinity, if it makes you happy. [rude?] Clearly. One has power, and the other has merely deluded themselves into thinking they do.
That's the thing with progress. It's not only inevitable, but it makes everything before feel obsolete. Technology is so ubiquitous in the future people don't care as much about the physical world.
Inside the machines. By the time I was fourteen, people had already started to download their brains inside a computer. It's a bit like... moving yourself, your soul, to another realm, I guess.
[ she does not look much older than fourteen ftr ]
... Yes and no? [ hm ] The idea was that in there, humans could live forever. And physically there were limits to who could be brought in. But honestly, I think you're right that it would've lead to the end of humanity as we know it eventually.
You can always have back-ups. [ wry, but: ] When you guys send each other pictures on the phone, it creates a copy on your device. So that exists in both places. That's sort of how backups work.
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And women with delusions of divinity, if it makes you happy. [rude?] Clearly. One has power, and the other has merely deluded themselves into thinking they do.
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[ now she is being a little shit. anyway; ]
I think anyone with that kind of power doesn't show themselves so easily.
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CLOSES EYE IN YE OLDE.]
Fair enough.
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[ sorry.... ]
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[ she does not look much older than fourteen ftr ]
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That seems like a good way to ensure that humans one day go extinct.
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But they'd stay alive in computers.
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