Title: From What I've Tasted of Desire
Date: 2017-01-24 22:48
Category: commentary
+Tags: bullet-biting
> _Oh, we have to get this right
> Yes, we have to make them see_
>
> —["Ballad of the Crystal Empire"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kESi3hksPg0), _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_
-_(Epistemic status: far more plausible than it has any right to be.)_
+_(Epistemic status: somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but also far more plausible than it has any right to be. Assumes the correctness of [Blanchard's transsexualism typology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard's_transsexualism_typology) without arguing it here.)_
So, not a lot of people understand this, but the end of the world is, in fact, nigh. _Conditional_ on civilization not collapsing (which is itself a _kind_ of end of the world), sometime in the next century or so, someone is going to invent better-than-human artificial general intelligence. And from that point on, humans are not really in control of what happens in this planet's future light cone.