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>we only have two ways out, occultism or transhumanism
Man, anon, you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. What about just making your life a nice one?

But seriously. AGI in the way you use it is just the newest manifestation of the age-old delusion that a super powerful god (or foreign nation or heroic man or aliens or or or) is gonna come in and change everything and bring about heaven or hell on earth. Like, it's not accurate, it's skewed by our (historically proven) tendency to believe in things like that - to WANT to believe in things like that. It's not all that different from occultism in that respect - good ol' Moloch.

But the other thing I wanted to say is that I think occultism is kinda retarded (speaking as someone who has actually understood and practiced it), just as retarded as hoping for CelestAI to swoop in and save the day. But I've had my "way out" for a long time now, and it's neither of those escapist fantasies - it's my way out of sorrow and into life, the life I actually have in front of me right now, the life that brings every iota of love I have ever experienced, not a distant hope. I would be surprised if we haven't had a conversation about this stuff before, you and I; but let me reiterate in case you've forgotten. This is psychology, introspection, sorting out the shit you directly experience every day, not some magic woo woo or a distant hopeless hope.

You (all anons) have the potential for Equestrian happiness inside you, you feel it directly, you know how it tastes. But you project it out across a fantasy of space and time, across herculean feats of effort, maybe even beyond death. For some of you, it's because you can't bring yourself to be comfortable with the idea of happiness without a cost. For others, it's because you've been told for all your life that feelings don't matter, only work, only hard facts. For still others, it's because some part of you can't believe that love is real, and so love needs to be contained in a fantasy-world, a world beyond you, across space and time, on the other side of a herculean effort, maybe even beyond death.

If you are one of these people, every bit of "hope" or striving for this Equestrian happiness is tinged by this secret despair, this secret doubt. Because something has driven you not to accept the gift of love, as real as anything, hovering right under your nose. To deny it you dive into the nearest fantasy - the scent of it drives you mad, into beliefs that you really don't believe: "just one more lifetime of work and it will be mine to live", you say to yourself, "just the sniff of it is enough for me", you try to believe. The hope and the striving are how you trick yourself into denying the gift you've been given - they are the act of putting an obstacle in between you and your love, and that's why they are so painful.

It is my deepest wish that all who read this may find peace. Your waifu awaits you, in her little house in your heart.