Transhumanism scale
1: cane or crutch
3: glasses
4: contact lens
7: hearing aids
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90: brain uploaded to cloud
95: uploaded brain downloadable to blank robot
100: brains in cloud/robots form collective superconsciousness
Agree/disagree? Points in between?
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Haha. Sorry. Just “glasses are transhumanism” is like saying “y=mx+b is an artifificial intelligence that can predict a location on a line” (to paraphrase
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I think there's value to recognizing how seemingly trivial things are on evolutionary curves that lead to radically different states. People have a tendency hindsight-bias normalization. Glasses were HUGE. And y=mx+b was HUGE too at its point on the trajectory.
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