Billionaires, to the god Quetzalcoatl.
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Hey can you tell me whatβs the source of this please? Seems interesting
Apocalypto
2006 film
Merge mind. That it.
I want all people on earth link their mind, to become one.
Because most of hardship, miserable i had in my life was cause by another.
If we link our mind, each each of a "body" as our own, they we are much better happy and archived more than what we are now.
So you'd sacrifice individuality? That's a good scifi one.
If The internet gets good enough with chips in our head and everything. I guess that's what we'd basically have. Access to each other's memories and senses. Just ghosts and an internet of flesh
If you play Sellaris, there are hive mind ascension. So a civilization might be once individual like human, but in the end, they become hive mind. By psychic enlightenment, or by machine augmentation, or by genetic manipulation ...
Convenience.
Sadly it is something far fewer people are willing to give up than any of the above.
the ability to lie and "falsely claim".
imagine everybody is stricken with that boy's wish from "liar liar"
sure there would be a bunch of hurt feelings, but maybe the better world can compensate?
I'd sacrifice social media algorithms. Delete them all.
A sacrifice is something you like and want to keep, but you're going to give it up for a higher good.
Yeah, a lot of these are just things that the commenter obviously wants to get rid of. It would be more of a "2 birds, one stone" than an actual sacrifice.