Forecasting that humans will seek immortality, bliss and divinity simply reflects the ideals of liberal humanism

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• Coming near to bliss, immortality and divinity is likely to deflect humankind towards entirely different destinations YHYuval Noah Hararic. 2015–2017
• Humankind is likely to reach for bliss, divinity and immortality even if it kills us YHYuval Noah Hararic. 2015–2017
• Longtermism, which treats fulfilling humanity's long-term potential as the overriding moral priority, is a worldview worth defending. ÉTÉmile P. Torres19 Oct 2021
• Healthy-minded optimism is inadequate as a philosophy, because the evil it ignores is part of reality and may be the key to life's meaning WJWilliam Jamesc. 1902
• A common-sense utopia is much closer to the present day than it is to the best futures actually available to us. WMWilliam MacAskill3 Aug 2025

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