Maybe these transhuman fascinations are largely vanity.
What if human consciousness is already in the Goldilocks zone?
Between change and stability,
between focus and awareness,
between prediction and manifestation,
between imagination and reality.
What if the speed of AI is too ephemeral to be grounded in resilience?
Maybe you can move the playing field to a degree, but the dynamics may remain analogous to traditional human competition in the physical realm.
Maybe there’s more balance and wisdom in the Design than our egos care to admit. A singularity, by definition, is the antithesis of balance.
Regardless, these musing in no way discount the peril of corrupt stewards.