i want to like anarcho-transhumanist "abolish human nature" rhetoric but i'm finding it impossible to suppress the awareness that in practice this means the human version of the ethical meat cow from HHGTG that's genetically engineered to want you to eat it
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I agree, once you start tweaking there is nothing left. This is my favourite Fermi paradox explanation. Banks actually alludes to it too, he describes how Minds created without 'human [alien] nature’ sublime immediately because there is no point sticking around…
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Bank? Source please? This sounds like my view on blank slatism
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Iain M. Banks, Culture sequence (start with The Player of Games)... iirc the commentary being referenced is from an interview
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