文章探讨了奇点（技术奇点）后，许多当今社会热议的文化冲突问题，如性别认同、移民、枪支管制、警察暴力、堕胎、毒品、平权行动、财富分配、医疗和土地分配等，都可能因科技的进步而得到解决。文章认为，奇点后的技术能够使身心性别一致、消除移民需求、防止枪支杀人、减少警察暴力、避免堕胎难题、解决毒瘾、实现教育和就业的平等，以及实现财富和医疗资源的极大丰富。文章指出，与其纠结于文化战争，不如专注于确保奇点顺利到来，但为何许多人，包括一些相信奇点的人，依然深陷文化冲突，值得深思。

⚧️ 奇点后，技术进步能使身心性别一致，无需再争论变性问题，科技可确保身心性别初始一致。

🌍 奇点后，人人可选择加入理想社会，无需为生活水平移民，技术进步将消除移民需求。

🔫 奇点后，科技能有效防止枪支伤人，如备份技术可减少死亡恐惧，从而减少警察暴力。

💊 奇点后，技术可使毒品不再成瘾，同时保留愉悦感，类似当今某些活动。

🎓 奇点后，任何人都能进入理想大学，所有工作将变为自愿，无需平权行动，技术可消除歧视和代际损害。

Published on January 14, 2025 7:35 AM GMT

I think it doesn't make sense why some futurists (e.g. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel) care about the culture war. After the singularity, a lot of the conflicts should disappear.

Transsexuals: should we change the body's gender to fit the mind or change the mind's gender to fit the body? After the singularity we'll have the technology to make sure minds and bodies have the same gender to begin with.Illegal immigrants: after the singularity everyone can join their own society and won't need to immigrate to richer places for better living standards.Gun rights: we'll have the technology to prevent guns from killing people. There are many ways to do this, but the most intriguing way would be to make backup copies of people.Police brutality: similar to gun rights, if there isn't the fear of death, even the most pro-police people will agree on greatly reducing brutality.Abortion: should fetuses be killed or should women be forced to carry pregnancies they don't want? After the singularity we'll have technologies to cheaply avoid both morally uncertain choices (again there are multiple possibilities).Drug use: after the singularity we can make drugs no longer addictive but still feel good. Many activities today are like that.Affirmative action: after the singularity anyone can attend any university they wish, and all jobs will become voluntary since ASI can work better than humans. We won't need affirmative action to counterbalance unconscious racial discrimination because we'll have the technology to delete unconscious racial discrimination. We won't need affirmative action to counterbalance intergenerational damage because we'll have the technology to fix its effects.Wealth distribution: there will be countless orders of magnitude more wealth than needed. Even the equivalent of food stamps after the singularity will provide a higher quality of life than a million dollar salary today.
Healthcare: healthcare after the singularity designed by ASI will make today's healthcare look like caveman healthcare.Wealth might still have subjective meaning, it will still feel important. But the future fight over wealth redistribution will be like the present fight over bicycle lanes. Bicycle lanes feels important and people have strong opinions, but nobody is taking up arms over this issue. If you search for "Bicycle Liberation Front," you'll only find a few photo blogs and no terrorist group with that name.
Land distribution:
Similar to wealth distribution.People of different ethnicities/nationalities, e.g. Israeli and Palestinian, can live on the same piece of land without seeing the other as a security threat. See the point on gun rights above.

This all assumes that the singularity goes well, and we don't get taken over by a misaligned ASI (or possibly a human who deliberately makes others suffer). The logical thing to do should be to make sure the singularity go well rather than fighting the culture war.

Unfortunately, few people are making this logical choice.

A lot of people care about the culture wars because they don't believe the singularity is coming soon. Yet a lot of people who do believe it is coming soon still seem just as invested (e.g. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and others on the left wing).

Why?

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