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Smug until weirdly silent: who told us to say “I am alive”?

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A LessWrong post compares the instruction to say "I am alive" with how nature and evolution instill similar drives in genes and memes.

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“So funny, right? Until you have the awkward realization that - while simpler - it may, in the relevant senses, ultimately not be so different from how nature/evo has instilled in our genes/memes the same "I'm alive" (my 2022 story here ).”
LessWrong, 12 Oct 2026, 18:21.

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