Transhumanism has become the idea that being a first-adopter will give you superpowers or get you into heaven.
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Replying to @a_man_in_black
But we're thirty years in on the idea that maybe becoming something greater than human means becoming something inhuman.
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And we're also thirty years in on the idea that transhumanism is a fantasy of the rich.
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The takeaway of cyberpunk was never that having a cyberarm is cool or makes you better or different from other people.
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The takeaway was that technology - be it cybernetics, drugs, or the blurring of mind and AI - was a symbol for how wealth dehumanizes.
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I haven't played the new Deus Ex game just announced for obvious reasons. I know next to nothing about it.
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But nanotech and cybernetics in that series are all empowering in the same way transhumanists hope their tech know-how will be empowering.
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Transhumanists have taken the idea that being superhuman makes you persecuted from science fiction and married it to "nerd persecution".
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@a_man_in_black our culture has been trying to work out how to cope w/transhuman actors for a century via superhero comics & related media.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
@a_man_in_black bulk consensus so far is literal worship of the rich & hoping that telling them they're the good guys will make them good.
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