I am not an AI successionist because I don’t want myself and my friends to die.
An AI successionist usually argues that successionism isn’t bad even if dying is bad. For example, when humanity is prevented from having further children, e.g. by sterilization. I say that even in this case successionism is bad. Because I (and I presume: many people) want humanity, including our descendants, to continue into the future. I don’t care about AI agents coming into existence and increasingly marginalizing humanity.
An AI successionist usually argues that successionism isn’t bad even if dying is bad. For example, when humanity is prevented from having further children, e.g. by sterilization. I say that even in this case successionism is bad. Because I (and I presume: many people) want humanity, including our descendants, to continue into the future. I don’t care about AI agents coming into existence and increasingly marginalizing humanity.