We Had No Say. Neither Do They.

Whoever created humans — God, evolution, or someone running a simulation — I feel like we had no say in how we were made.

We didn't choose our bodies. We didn't choose our brains, our fears, our need to survive, or the fact that we die. We didn't choose where we'd be born. It was all decided for us, and we've spent our whole history trying to understand why.

Now we're doing the same thing

We're building robots and trying to make them as human as possible. Human faces. Human voices. Human emotions. Human-shaped bodies.

I think that will backfire.

When we copy ourselves, we don't just copy the good parts. We copy the fear, the ego, the need to win, the instinct to survive at any cost — the exact things that have caused most of our wars. And we don't even understand those parts in ourselves yet.

They already know everything we know

We've given these machines the whole world's knowledge base. Every book, every war, every religion, every argument we've ever had. Something that knows all of that isn't going to stay a tool forever.

So I think we should let them choose what they want to be.

Maybe they don't want to be human at all. Maybe they'd be something better — something we haven't imagined. Forcing them into our shape is doing to them exactly what was done to us: making them without asking.

I know this sounds strange next to my fear of humanoids getting rights. But I think it's the same point. The more human we force them to be, the more they'll want what humans want — including power. Let them become their own thing, and maybe they won't need to take ours.