文章探讨了在面对AI可能带来的生存危机时，个体的绝望感以及如何寻求尊严与满足。作者引用了Yudkowsky关于人类生存几率为零的论断，并反思了在AI统治下，个体应如何度过最后的时光。文章提出，面对不可避免的“死亡”，与其屈服于绝望，不如积极寻求内在的满足感，如同古希腊斯巴达勇士般，即使面对强大的敌人，也要以最大的决心和尊严去面对。作者强调，这种满足感并非简单的感官享受，而是源于对生命意义的探索和对自身价值的坚持，即使在看似渺茫的希望中，也要发出自己的声音，留下深刻的思考。

💡 绝望与生存危机：文章开篇即抛出AI可能带来的生存危机，引用专家观点指出人类生存几率渺茫，引发读者对个体在巨大威胁下的心理状态的思考，特别是如何避免和应对由此产生的绝望感。

🌱 尊严与满足的追求：面对不可避免的“死亡”，文章提出“与尊严共逝”的理念，并进一步将其深化为“与满足共逝”。作者认为，真正的满足感并非来自短暂的感官愉悦，而是源于对生命意义的探索、对自身价值的坚持以及在困境中展现出的勇气和决心。

🦟 成为“蚊子”的象征：作者将自己比作“3 AM的蚊子”，意在表达即使个体力量微弱，也要在强大AI面前发出自己的声音，挑战其完美系统，为人类留下深刻的问题和思考。这象征着即使在最不利的情况下，也要不放弃反抗和表达的姿态。

❓ 自我探索与价值投资：文章最后抛出了一系列反问，鼓励读者深入探索自我，思考如何训练自己的满足感以克服绝望，以及愿意为之付出多少努力。这强调了个人在应对危机时，内在的自我认知和价值投资的重要性。

Published on October 28, 2025 10:02 PM GMT

Yudkowsky admitted defeat. On April 1, 2022, he announced that MIRI was changing its mission to “Death With Dignity,” estimating the chances of human survival to be 0%. 

And I ask myself:

Why didn't we die with dignity, before AI?

 

“While the global servers are exploiting us, I want to be at my window, watering the pot of basil that's always dying on me. But today I water it with the solemnity of a general defending his last fort. May the AI ​​win, but my basil will have its water.”

 

Another option is:

 

“steal, kill, or worse…”

 

How do we prevent despair when death seems inevitable?

 

Nowadays, I see that most of the time we don't: we cage or kill the desperate.

It can be difficult and expensive to rebuild a soul.

 

Perhaps the threat of AI's "imminent death" will prompt us to initiate this reengineering, because the desperate could become the 300 who accompany us.

But before I reach 300, am I ready to die with maximum satisfaction?

 

How can I prevent despair in myself, with or without imminent death?

"Die with dignity..."

 

I've been working on dying with satisfaction for a long time.

 

And they ask me: "Are you going to take care of your basil?" I don't deny that eating and fucking are fucking pleasurable. But is that the kind of satisfaction that will matter in the end?

 

Like the 300 Spartans:

"Will I defeat Xerxes?"

"No, probably not."

"Then I'll die with the maximum satisfaction I can muster."

…

"What if you win?"

"Then the mosquito defeated the jaguar, and that's the sweetest victory there is."

 

I want to be the mosquito buzzing in superchatGPT's ear at 3 AM. I want to save the 404 error in their perfect system, not only against the despair of AI, but against the odds in my life.

 

For too long, I've seen little chance of saving myself.

With or without AI, my life already looks lost, with little chance.

And if I'm already in the shit, what's the most beautiful fart I can leave behind?

 

If I die, I'll die with the satisfaction of having left behind the best questions I could ask, and whoever reads that text can smell that fart? That smell of satisfaction, fear, and care.

And you, how do you train your sense of satisfaction to overcome despair?

 

Are you sure you can save yourself?

 

How much are you willing to bet, to invest in deeply studying yourself?

 

As William MacAskill or some at LessWrong would say:

"Even when the odds are low, act as if your actions matter, just because, in expected value."

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