[historicaltimes]

Night spear fishing in Hawaii, 1948. Fishermen made torches out of kukui nuts wrapped in leaves on top of a lamaku, a large torch made out of the midrib of a coconut leaf.

via reddit

[jumpingjacktrash]

you can’t fool me that’s a lanternfish

[another-normal-anomaly]

This is transhumanist.

[slartibartfastibast]

No. Toolmaking is just humanist. Transhumanism is a fantasy genre that looks like hard scifi to people autistic enough to think the no-cloning theorem couldn’t possibly apply to consciousness.

[mitigatedchaos]

I mean, Transhumanism isn’t just upload civilizations.  It’s also robot arms.

And we already have robot arms, so it’s likely just a matter of time before they exceed regular arms.

Singulitarianism, on the other hand…

[mitigatedchaos]

Hell, even if brains are quantum and microtubules are used for calculations at the subcellular level, such that you can’t actually duplicate them without destroying them, that doesn’t even stop you from engineering brain augmentations and, on the lesser end, carrying out some pretty heavy body modifications.

The ability of the brain to learn to use experimental neuron-controlled prosthetics, and the ability of people to use that prosthetic thumb device posted just this past week, suggests you aren’t even limited to the standard human template.

This is doubly true if you can push the control hardware and software towards the extremities, as existing human bodies already do, and so you aren’t limited to what will fit inside a single standard-sized skull.

It means you can’t do Eclipse Phase, but Eclipse Phase is a nightmare.