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Interestingly, both the founders of the World Transhumanist Association seem to be more aligned towards the Life+ angle. While David Pearce has focused on the ethics of biosphere suffering, Nick Bostrom has focused on the possibility space of non-human intelligence.
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Life+ sounds like posthumanism...
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Posthumanism tends to be more of a research program, while transhumanism tends to be more about advocacy directed towards research programs. Meaning that posthumanism (I think innately) has less of an ethical axis.
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A great example of the transhumanist framing I call “Radical Environmentalism”—which sees a potential ethical duty to the natural world, that demands technological work on our part.
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In the wild, animals live in continual life-defining fear pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vide If, as most people suspect, animals have corresponding qualia, our long-run duty isn't to restore fear but to abolish the wild—or to control it in tremendous detail, way beyond present technology.
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I’m just linking versions of transhumanist ethics in this thread. I’m calling them radical, because regular egoists, humanists, and environmentalists wouldn’t recognize them.
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