nd blah blah blah. You know plenty of other reasons. But I think the basic instinct is just about self-love. It's a form of self-love that just happens to have an external component to it, the child.

Now whether or not you accept that hypothesis I'm going to extend it for those who do accept it. We now have AI that can take one photograph and animate it like a perfect deepfake. It can add your voice perfectly and it can learn about you so it can act like you. So people like me who have a large body of work including these live streams could just train an AI to create me to live forever. It could age me. It could age me backwards etc.

So there's a 100% chance that I'm going to leave my AI self after I'm physically gone from this life. Why? Because I can afford it. I've been planning to do it for 30 years now. You can all confirm that right? There's a lot of people who have been following me for a long time. You can confirm that I've been saying for 30 years that I plan to wait until the technology can essentially duplicate me in digital form. Yeah so I'm saying the confirmation is coming by so you know I've been saying this forever.

That I also have this instinct for narcissism but I don't want to really promote my genes so I can feel that my instinct for immortality can be satisfied by AI. Now is that a generalizable thing or is it because I'm a freak and I'm you know maybe there's cognitive dissonance confirmation bias. You know maybe there's just something unique and broken about me that makes me think a digital recreation is somehow going to extend my mortality because it's crazy right? Kind of crazy. It's crazy to think that putting yourself into a digital form is really anything but you know what I say putting your genes on another person and then dying is ridiculous. It's ridiculous. You're still dead and it's just some other creature is alive right?

The thing which makes us think having a child supports our immortality is irrational. The thing that would make me feel that an AI would support my immortality is also irrational. But you know what they both have in common? They both work. Because when you're trying to disable an instinct like the instinct to be immortal or to reproduce, the instinct is not based on reason. You can't reason away an instinct but you can satisfy it. And I believe that I can satisfy my reproduction instinct with AI.

But that's not my point because if you think the point is about how weird I am that's just sort of the side story. The bigger point is this. I think AI could end reproduction on Earth and it could happen really quickly because there's going to be a whole lot of people who are in that gray area where they say to themselves, and by the way here's another trend I'm going to connect