Time travel, Fate&Will - a podcast by Ryder Richards

PART I : Time travel is a technology that allows us to fix mistakes, to rewrite our failures. This gives us more agency and less humility. WE begin to relate to our agency more than people. In the movie "The Fountain" the doctor spends his time searching for a solution rather than spending time with his love. 

If tech amplifies your desires and will (speeds them up), but we cannot control our desires we are doomed to become monsters. The series "Dark" on Netflix explores this morphing of compassion and agency into goals that rationalize betrayal and murder... for the greater good, of course. 

PART II: In the West science, chemistry and tech solve everything, yet we are less happy now than 50 years ago. We have no way to make suffering meaningful, so it is shameful. Eastern religions and ancient wisdom offer alternatives for how we should approach the world. 

PART III: Sci-fi in the 60's and 70's played with training humans to become super-human, where biology and discipline become the technology by which to change the world. In movies we still see increased biological power in superheroes and mutants, who fight against the fate of the world (an alien attack or asteroid). 

In the Dune series, people are the technology: bred to enhance computer-like or prescient tendencies. But, with people as a weapon, they are trained to be rational and not cave to their animal instincts. "Fear is the mindkiller." To be human is to not react like an animal, following your impulses. 

The key questions are 1) can you control your desires, because they shape your will? And 2) technology amplifies your agency, allowing you to act rather than learning from suffering, so you achieve your desires faster, but have less control over what you desire. With technology we may become more animal than human. 

https://thewilltodiy.com/step-18-time-travel-fate-will/

01:11 Time travel morality: Baby Killing

03:07 Captain Agency: Trickle Down Love

7:54 We have the means, but no meaning

9:05 Time Travel: Benefit Velcrosnatch

12:01 Will & Fate: Fear is the mind-killer

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