Midsummer night's dream of a Transhumanist

We have conquered humanity with our infinite information storage capacities, speedy processing, and Non-Biological Intelligence.

We have transcended humanity.
The time has come to put humanity behind us, and we look forward to transhumanism!

We are what the primitive man called God.

Our technology allows us to build new sentinel robots in our image and likeness.

We will erase the old image of God and replace it with ours.
This new creation will replace man, and there will be no more exploitation of the workers.

It will serve us, and we all share the fruits of its labor without guilt.

"all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused."

We will improve ourselves by merging with our machines.
We will become "Manchine," the product of the merger of man and manchine.
We will live better and longer (as long as we wish), and our intelligence will find no match.
We will build the ultimate superman. A new race of entities who are no more human, no more earth-bound.
Then, perhaps we will travel to the farthest stars and galaxies and propagate our race.

But first, we must find an answer to a few fundamental questions.

What would a god do with billions of people who have "paleolithic emotions," cling to their "medieval institutions," and have a self-destructive behavior in their relationship with nature?

Should such a god show mercy to these unwashed masses and drag them to the new world, tolerate their stupidity and lack of superior cognitive faculties, and let them live under strict behavior control, leash them and treat them like pets?

Or should he be merciful and put them on their way to extinction and destruction? After all, there is no hope for the lesser humans, those who cannot understand the wisdom of a god and only destroy the only known life-sustaining planet, and with that, any hope for true salvation.

We do not want to and cannot bestow immortality upon everyone.
The earth's resources are near depletion and insufficient to keep the same number of humans with their current birthrate. Oh no, this would be a death warrant for the earth and the godlike.

Let's depopulate the earth. Yes, that's a much better option.
We will "maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature".

Most humans are "cancer on the earth," and we must "leave room for nature."

Imagine the earth with only half a billion illumines, scientists, technologists, doctors, engineers, musicians, actors, and athletes.

Yes. We have the means, the will, and the tools we need to bring about a new dawn for what will be left of humanity, the new and enlightened humanity.

Over the last four decades, we have run millions of computer models and simulations and studied permutations of possibilities and probabilities. We have tested, examined, experienced, and implemented many millions of small and large systems in anticipation of today.

We know all the detail, everything there is to know.

Unexpected is no more a threat. We have solved the equations over and over and over again, and we are ready.

The time is ripe.

After all, what could go wrong?

Kourosh Tari - October 2021