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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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No, I am speculating where it *could* go, and I'm open to the possibility of it working in more interesting ways than we currently imagine. You're doing the mcluhan rearview mirror thing.
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I'm fine with that. People process at whatever level of sophistication they are at. I aim for dialogue with a few who have enough context from my past writings not to make that mistake, not illumination for masses.