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@argumate is this your thing now

WE WILL CONTINUE TO POST PIXELATED ART OF QUESTIONABLE QUALITY (AT RANDOM INTERVALS BETWEEN TWO HOURS AND SIX MONTHS) UNTIL OUR DEMANDS ARE MET

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[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.

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Anonymous asked:

Why do you think China is about to enter a period of decline?

Well, kind of.  They have some serious challenges ahead in the 21st century which exceed those of America’s.

The rivers running red with industrial runoff?  The gradual slowdown in economic activity that the PRC has depended on to remain in power?  The continued significant corruption, debt, and malinvestment such as the ghost cities?  But the biggest one is, of course, the after-effects of the One Child Policy, which dramatically increases the ratio of older dependents to workers, and puts more economic pressure on young people, making family formation difficult/unaffordable.

China can potentially rise to meet all of these challenges, but it will not be easy, and the stress may break the PRC government and result in a civil war.

To do so, it may be necessary to transform their style of government into something new, but if they go the direction I’d go if I were them?  That may be one helluva fight for dominance of the 21st century.

(Not sure when I got this ask.  In fact, I can’t even remember when in recent times I mentioned this about China.  It is important to remember in this and other considerations that the Chinese are not stupid, contrary to what the outsourcing American corporations assured us with “but the good jobs will stay here!”)

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[feotakahari]

I’ve figured out why I take such a strong dislike to fantasy stories where people are persecuted for their special powers. They’re often modeled on real oppression of people who were considered unimportant–poor, unattached, and not influential within the community. The stories reframe them as having supernatural gifts that make them more special than their oppressors, and that makes their oppression wrong. But if you need to be special to deserve not to be oppressed, then what does that say about the real not-special people who were persecuted, cast out, and outright murdered?

[argumate]

muggle pride! although they are something of a majority, so not quite the same.

[mailadreapta]

Reminds me of a great insight I got from (IIRC) John C. Wright: the X-Men is such a powerful fantasy precisely because it allows you to imagine being both the innocent victim of persecution, with all the moral legitimacy that conveys in the modern world, and the ubermensch, the next stage of human evolution – at the same time.

[mitigatedchaos]

Everyone wants to be Adam Jensen.

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[Random Interval] Reminder that the White Nationalists still seemingly haven’t noticed that widespread human genetic engineering is arriving in 1-3 decades.

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[zoobus]

I think e3 is over and I hope that means I never hear about whatever that cyber punk drama was about again
I learned more about the origins of a genre I’ve never read than I ever cared to know

[ranma-official]

Thankfully, as we know, people really quickly drop culture war stuff as far as videogames go

[mitigatedchaos]

“-and now, President Highever has ordered deployment of additional troops to fight GamerGate-sponsored insurgents as the Montana crisis continues.  The troops, who are expected to arrive on Wednes-”

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#dogs - dog photos and canine cybernetic augmentations.  also ferrets, to go with the ferret mistagging fad

#national technocracy - hypothetical point within the N-dimensional ideospace lattice originally theorized by RAND Geospatial Dynamics Working Group in the 1950s, generally summarized as “that thing that comes after prediction markets”, many researchers dispute whether it can actually exist.  abandoned by Silicon Valley CEOs in favor of a system based on Facebook likes. 

#dogfree - actual dog photos, just dog photos

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No tags for this timeline, possibly unstable.  Radsuit suggested.

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You got it wrong, to prove I’m right I put it in a song

One Direction, corrupting an entire generation of potential logicians (via argumate)

In the future Deep VR Tumblr, Discourse is carried out entirely through Disney-like musical numbers.

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Anonymous asked:

Okay heres what makes me dead on curious about this indie game about someone who only cares about the feelings of men (boohoo)... How do you make a feminist cyberpunk future? Isn't that kind of like the opposite?

cyberpunkpixeljunk answered:

Nah, just make sure the women in the setting fit the setting. Plus, what do we know about this game? It could be just fine.

[mitigatedchaos]

Ugh…

Transhumanism destroys gender/sex binaries by enabling mass alteration of bodies, sex, and gender.

Done properly it will be “Post-Feminist” because Transhumanism massively weakens the boundaries around what the term “woman” even means, and fundamentally alters the mechanics of human reproduction.  (I mean, just take the idea of artificial wombs by itself and you’ll get big changes.)

Feminism itself is already struggling to adapt to the world it has created with only modern technology levels.  The “Feminists” of 2065 (or whatever) will likely be very different from the ones of 2017.

[argumate]

WE USED TO HAVE A GENDER BINARY

[fluffshy]

This assumes that the gender binary isn’t something many people want (on some level or another). Considering that clothes often up being gendered, it wouldn’t be surprising to me if bodies become even more gendered among a significant portion of the population. We already have this to a certain extent. After all, men don’t get breast implants even though (unless you count transwomen or related things). Even if you could trans people, then number of ciswomen getting breast implants and cismen getting breast reduction out-numbers them (I think, I am not sure where to look for stats about this.)

Even women shaving legs while men generally don’t could be seen as a evidence that give the opportunity to make the gender differences even greater, people will.

[mitigatedchaos]

Absolutely.  Go on Second Life and you’ll see muscle mountains posing as men.

What I’m expecting however, is mass defection from a significant contingent of men, and a smaller counter-part group among women, into something new.

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[mitigatedchaos]

@discoursedrome: in the grim darkness of the far future, the furry vs. scaly war knows no end

That’s the spirit!