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What does it take to be you?

You have considered the question, almost certainly. And in the darkest moments of your life you may have been left without an answer.

It is likely that your ability to identify your selfhood, and what it is made up of, has grown and then shrunk again through various life events: marriage, a child, a job, good sex. And it is also likely that at various points throughout your career, and your friendships, and your relationships, you have felt as if you are close and almost touching an understanding, or a comfort, with yourself.

I am going to make the argument that all of us are closer to this point than we have ever been. And it is not through clean eating or social connection or transcendental meditation — though all of these things can help — but through our continued Internet and A.I arms race. In the pursuit of building the automated and robotic versions of ourselves, some sort of tangible and real God™ that is Created and Designed by us, I do not think we are pushing ourselves away from humanity but towards it.

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