How much actual control over the world does your knowledge enable you to exert, outside of these highly contrived situations provided by the modern society?
Why would I want to assert control over the world outside of that context? I am in that context—that’s part of my point. I am a better human in part because I am a human with a computer and a car and a cellphone and the Internet. My descendants might be better in part because they are robots/cyborgs/uploaded/built out of nanobots. And we are all better because we are connected and able to perform tasks together that no lone ‘survivalist’ can.
Why would I want to assert control over the world outside of that context? I am in that context—that’s part of my point. I am a better human in part because I am a human with a computer and a car and a cellphone and the Internet. My descendants might be better in part because they are robots/cyborgs/uploaded/built out of nanobots. And we are all better because we are connected and able to perform tasks together that no lone ‘survivalist’ can.