[argumate]

belvarine said: I’m not sure “transhumanism” is colloquial for “using tools.” Typically transhumanists are trying to ascend beyond human limitations. This would create class disparities in the short term and that makes some people rather suspicious. I personally don’t care either way.

belvarine said: And when i say “human limitations” I mean fundamental limitations. Death, unable to be several places at once, physiological caps on processing power, that kind of stuff.

whereshadowsmakeshadows said: I think another reason is some people see it in the context of markets where transhumanist tech will be guided by profit rather than social good

oh right, the horrifying thought that rich people might not die.

[thathopeyetlives]

Ehhhh, if you consider the whole Em thing it is actually plenty horrifying (and also doesn’t even benefit the rich very much). And other Bostrom-ish fears. One begins to wonder whether such a thing happening means that the Tribulation is beginning. 

(Also I consider consciousness-forking to be a Very Bad Thing in (nearly?) all circumstances. Do not do the thing. Blessed be the Lord who seems to have made it pretty difficult and maybe actually impossible.)

[mitigatedchaos]

I certainly consider the Ems thing horrifying, and also an accidental critique of Capitalism.  To consider it a good thing, one would have to conflate economic utility with goodness… which I guess some people do.

And I’m a Transhumanist.

Part of the reason I engage in so much futurist shitposting on my blog is that people across this world are trapped in the present moment and cannot see the future.  The issues of this world will change so dramatically, but they act as if the technology of the 10′s will go on forever, just as they acted as if the technology of the 00′s would.

We must be ready.  It is absolutely vital that we are ready.  And nations, states, families, even religions… there must be things which tie us to our past and anchor us in context.

But then, I still believe in nations and states, families and morality.  And somewhere inside me I still feel that we will all be judged somehow, even as that same spark calls infinite torment injustice.  But not everyone believes or feels these things anymore, if they ever did.