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I always preferred the ‘Friendship is Optimal’ version. It’s a my little pony fanfiction in which a video game based on the franchise featuring AI achieves the singularity and creates a sort of digital afterlife. Humans can be uploaded, but the process is destructive, resulting in their real body’s death.

The afterlife created for them is uniquely calibrated to provide maximum contentment. Each space features a small number of other people (some real, some NPCs) following Dunbar’s number to ensure our minds can care about them. The people chosen are calibrated to mesh well with your personality.

It features interesting things for us to do, with enough challenges to keep things fresh and engaging, but not so many as to overly frustrate us. Basically it turns our experience into that of an idyllic version of reality.

That’s about as close a description of ‘eternal bliss’ as I can fathom except for the fact that by nature it’s not 100% bliss all the time. It’s just living in a world where you matter, can surround yourself with loved ones you gel with and can pursue your passions endlessly in ways that are personally rewarding to you. Even then I’m not sure how it’d actually keep working after a few thousand years or so.

I’d be more ok with this if the expensive specialists on board were actually making bank instead of really low wages.

I feel that social media has opened the door to too much open hostility to acts of kindness. Strategizing around a best move politically rather than having an open heart, even to people that may hate you.

It was Harris’ choice to post this publicly for people to react to. If it was simply about being kind then it could’ve been a private communication to the Cheney family directly.

It was performative at its core and woefully out of touch as well.

This isn’t building bridges though. No Republican is going to be moved or softened by this statement. It’s going to actively alienate the people who are supposed to like you though. The best move is to simply say nothing at all.

All this bullshit tells me is that those in power are still seeing this as nothing but business, like what we’re going through is simply a contract negotiation. No hard feelings. That they can watch their colleagues cause the death and misery of thousands and then leave that at the door and go grab a drink with that person.