Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.
Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.
Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?
What’s the difference?
For one, if we ever invent teleportation, everyone can stop worrying about whether they will actually come out on the other side in terms of continuity of experience. If there is no such thing to begin with, it is an irrational concern. Death as any kind of endless void can be acknowledged as a false abstraction and disregarded. We can stop looking for magical quantum tunnels in the brain etc. to explain “hard problems of consciousness” because all those paradoxes are resolved by accepting that consciousness isn’t real. We can stop worrying about when/how/whether AI might become conscious and stop trying to inflict our curse on it.