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It's inevitable, but early adopters like the current transhuman movement members will end up being freakshows with outdated technology.
They'll probably also be more than a little zealous and preachy, like ladies who do cross-fit or people who go to multilevel marketing seminars. Or those people who occasionally post dumb shit about immortality technologies on facebook ie clear that they are driven by wishful thinking and their wallets are being harvested by scammers.
But I'm happy for the early adopters to be the people who provide the dumb, over-eager cash that will eventually result in stuff I'd actually use myself.
As long as I'm the King of the Borg I'm cool with it.
I don't think the feasibility of the tech is anywhere near where it needs to be to actually make transhumanism possible. We're still working with plastic prosthetic limbs, artificial organs that don't work and most of our pharma is still based on concepts that were understood decades ago. And those are all life saving/altering techs that would be massively profitable to big pharma/med. The amount of money needed to go into developing the tech that would allow for any meaningful transhuman movement would be astronomical.
I'm a big sci-fi fan so I think Kurzweil-like nanotech that would allow us to live longer and more intelligent lives would be really cool, or enhancements that would give us superhuman physical strength and abilities, but I don't think it's something to worry about, or look forward to, anytime soon. I'm still waiting for my flying car that I was promised to get in the 80's by a '50's sci fi documentary.
I'm still waiting for the skin tight lycra body suit office wear that Lost in Space and others 50s/60s sci fi promised us.
They exist. Unfortunately most people look like Troi or Riker circa the 2002 film rather than the first show in 1987.
ugh, I just thought of some people in my office in that and died a little inside.
I'd just like a Rosie the robot to help clean up after pregames.
Interesting ethical considerations. On balance, I think yes, we should be a bit trepidatious when it comes to transhumanism and the Singularity.
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Looking forward to it...if the timeline of computational power vs. human intelligence is accurate at all, it looks like a single computer could exceed human intelligence in the next few decades. Once that happens, there is no telling what might happen. I just want to live a few hundred years, nbd.
The great intergenerational wars to come will make history interesting, as intergenerational wealth transfers shift way, way out and parricide rates sky rocket.
Not a real thing
And when it's being pushed and sold publicly there will always be an Icahn and an Ackman to go on CNBC and bitch and moan about the short and long of it.
Does this mean having sex with those Japanese robots will count as actually getting laid? I embrace the future.
Japanese sex bots are heading in strange directions these days.
NSFW link: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/10/today-in-sexbot-lactation-news/
Re: Lactating Sexbots
Sadly that that is not a strange evolution:
We had a prostitute as a guest speaker in one of my elective courses in undergrad, and while I forget the name of the fetish she served, essentially she "babied" depraved men.
And when I say "babied," I mean dressing them up in baby clothing, rocking them to sleep in a custom made crib, and, wait for it......... breast feeding them. She was able to charge quintuple her usual rate when she was lactating.
I wonder what kind of weird shit people are going to get up to when we have full immersion virtual reality.
Wow, that's coming along faster than the singularity
Trans-humanism being the end of humanity depends on how you define the role of humanity, if there is one, in the universe. Should it be feared? No. Certainly not by anyone in this thread.
I see the advent of trans-humanism as inevitable. Starting as a means of self improvement and evolving into a stop gap on our path to cheating death, resembling something along the lines of John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" but proving to be ineffective it its ultimate purpose.
My Sci-Fi nerd senses tell me that trans-humanism will lead to immortality, not through augmenting the human body, but by showing the inherent limitations therein and guiding us down the path of embedding our consciousness into AI and machine.
Considering the sun will die at some point, the milky way and andromeda galaxies are going to inevitably collide, space is vast, and human beings lifespan are finite, I see us giving birth to sentient AI/machines that can survive the trip to our next galaxy. Or we just cease to exist as a species. One or the other.
I see humanity acting like the sexual organs of artificial intelligence, existing to create the next life that will continue on from Earth.
Soooooooooooo... yeah
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