[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…

[slartibartfastibast]

Robot arms are still specialized. Only human arms are generalized. We must embark on a quest for AGA. Artificial general arms.

MIRI will of course join the effort. I wonder what the combined acronym should be.

Also, rocks are artificial specialized arms. They do more damage when you hit people with them.

[mitigatedchaos]

Look man, all I’m saying is that we can totally add cybernetic tails to Rationalist catgirls, and it’ll only take, like, one aug slot, tops.  Only 0.1% chance of a feedback loop overloading the central nervous system and causing a blackout.

So I’m gonna need you to back my Neko no Shippo kickstarter in 2033.