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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Humans use tools to enchance and augment ourselves. It’s core to being human. Not transhumanist. There’s no spectrum here. The real examples are just human. The ones in the 90s are religious fantasies (also a typical human activity).
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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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