This is already how it is between generations, in the natural human life cycle. One generation grows old and weak, and eventually falls irreversibly behind the next, whether or not it achieved its dreams.
In a world run by human-friendly superintelligence, there is some possibility that matured superintelligences will allow individual humans to also develop into superintelligences, in a process analogous to child-rearing. So there’s your chance at regaining parity with the new gods.
This is already how it is between generations, in the natural human life cycle. One generation grows old and weak, and eventually falls irreversibly behind the next, whether or not it achieved its dreams.
In a world run by human-friendly superintelligence, there is some possibility that matured superintelligences will allow individual humans to also develop into superintelligences, in a process analogous to child-rearing. So there’s your chance at regaining parity with the new gods.