local social corner talks a lot about the Glorious Transhumanist Morphological Freedom Future
but like as commonly described i’m not sure that’s a world where i’d actually want to like
live
u know
metagorgon said: ynot?
itsbenedict said: ?
it is v amusing to me that i didn’t expect ppl to find this puzzling
uh non-exhaustive collection of reasons
A) i don’t like being obsolete. i like solving problems and building cool things and stuff, and i like it when those things are useful.
a_1) it tends to go along with something resembling Fully Automated Luxury Communism Where Machines Will Do Anything For You If You Ask
a_2) it tends to allow for arbitrary intelligence boosts and/or hivemind creation
a_3) i don’t think i want to live within range of either of those things because A
B) takes a very gung-ho attidute toward modifying minds which i consider a thing to be done Extremely Cautiously
b_1) i should not be able to make significant changes to myself on impulse. especially not irreversible ones.
C) many of the Ideal Forms i have heard described i would not actually ever want to be in the presence of, often due to effects relating to B
D) pettiest objection: monsters are not my aesthetic :V
E) I REALLY do not want to end up in a Red Queen race where everyone is recklessly modifying themselves so they aren’t at a mental or physical disadvantage relative to their neighbors.
In the future, this era of involuntary death, famine, and war will be thought of as in some ways a more innocent time where the barriers of reality as we intuitively know them were only just starting to break down.
I will miss the year 2007. However, for those unwilling to die, there is no choice but some level of Transhumanism.
What we do in this time, however, matters perhaps more than at any previous time in human history. The ideological justifications for Capitalism as a moral system rather than a means to an end (merely a pragmatic choice based on its effectiveness) must be destroyed if total competition is not going to destroy everything we hold dear.
Honestly tho I just want to be Motoko Kusanagi or Hideo Kuze plzthx.