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Transhumanism scale 🤔 1: cane or crutch 3: glasses 4: contact lens 7: hearing aids ... ... 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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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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But that’s the whole point. You’re presuming where the trajectory goes. You’re acting like you believe in intelligent design rather than evolution. There’s nothing about existing human augmentation tech that implies transhumanism is the destination. That’s the ideological step.
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The point of imagining a specific "how extreme could this get?" path is simply to calibrate the potential of something. Not to predict or commit to a particular path or even to commit to the idea of a single path rather than a branching forking paths garden.
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