Transhumanism and you - Aka let's blow the shackles of limitations.

[DarthBrooks]

A good TL;Dr definition is technological manifest destiny. It is our given right (be it a sky daddy or no) to see how far we can go.

I am all for let's see how far we can go. Be it awsome robot bodies, downloading our existence onto a server, let your sci fi wet dreams take us wherever. No fucks given. I look at our past and present and worry not over the moral orals. I speculate to myself just what we will do, but as such I am limited. I would like to see what other kindly anons would like to see. You can be a fellow transhumanist, or just a tech buff. All opinions and expertise are welcome because it will take all types to help us see a world of post scarcity and post mortality. I will take mocking also, because what better way to see ones own foolishness but through hilarious critique.

 

[wylfım]

Transhumanism is an unrealistic, overly-optimistic dream that will never come true.
Still a nice goal to work towards though.

 

[AF 802]

While I am a big nerd for transhumanism, keep that in sci-fi and anime. It'll never happen (at least in our lifetime).

 

[Toucan]

I imagine that when it does happen there will be a number of "influencers", in whatever form they take in the distant future, who will be sponsored to become androids.
I can see it now. Logan Paul as an emancipated brain floating in suspension controlling an army of vlog bots.

 

[Pozzingmyfilthyneghole]

Realistically, I can see exoskeletons for the elderly becoming a huge market.
Instead of having to use helpers, old folks can wear a suit that will pick up on electromyography in the skeletal muscles.

 

[The Shadow]

Transhumanism is for rich people. Therefore it's not for me.

 

[Toucan]

Transhumanism is for rich people. Therefore it's not for me.

Thats an interesting thought.
Presumably in the far future it would become more accessable but I wonder if it would be like light bulbs where the prosthetics are designed to fail or have parts replaced.
Companies might copy the American arms industry model where they sell the tanks cheap but make their real money selling parts for the tanks.
And then you would really be in a kind of corporate serfdom where some company LITERALLY has full control over your body

 

[Carcinogenesis]

I's avoid it like the plague considering the current worldline we live in. Take for example the internet, where large companies own a monopoly on the conversation. Not even this forum is safe from outside influences. Imagine companies owning parts of your body. First we'll start off we necessities such as artificial organs, then we'll get the optional modifications. I'm sure the companies who produce these products will use all they could get from you, such as biometrics and genetic information. Brain implants are even more terrifying should outside influences or even the company turn it against you.

 

[QU 734]

Transhumanism is an unrealistic, overly-optimistic dream that will never come true.
Still a nice goal to work towards though.

I used to think that. Now I believe it's an inevitability. Mostly a matter of time, really.

 

[Woke Blue Muttlema]

I will someday live in a future where my closeted weaboo-Gibson fan self will be truly happy.

 

[garakfan69]

Remember when cyrogenics was all the rage?
Now the hip thing is to inject young boy's blood until it's possible to upload your brain.
This is just a fad for rich idiots who are desperate to lenghten their pointless lives.

I only want to live long enough to see them all die.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Brain implants are even more terrifying should outside influences or even the company turn it against you.

Google shut off some home automation system when it acquired the company. E-books have been remotely deleted from e-readers. Now imagine that sort of thing with implants...

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

I just want to be a cyborg ninja

 

[The Shadow]

Thats an interesting thought.
Presumably in the far future it would become more accessable but I wonder if it would be like light bulbs where the prosthetics are designed to fail or have parts replaced.
Companies might copy the American arms industry model where they sell the tanks cheap but make their real money selling parts for the tanks.
And then you would really be in a kind of corporate serfdom where some company LITERALLY has full control over your body

I feel like corporate serfdom would be a part of it. Like Alexa or whatever...it provides an apparently useful service but at the same time it's spying on your shopping habits so the company can collecting sales data on you. So you might be able to afford something above your means, but you're giving up something else. I feel like that's how you'll get transhumanist stuff into the hands of the less wealthy.

 

[Y2K Baby]

AI is a meme. Some transhuman stuff will probably come through but I doubt people will start living 150+ years on average.

Transhumanism is just proof that very smart people can still be pretty dumb.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Transhumanism is just the logical extension of secular humanism and in that sense I'm all for it. That said most self described transhumanists are giant fucking spergs and the singularity is just the rapture for failed nerds.

That said by its broadest definition it's not a future thing, it's already here. Many people are only alive today because of drugs and implants.

 

[Pozzingmyfilthyneghole]

AI is a meme. Some transhuman stuff will probably come through but I doubt people will start living 150+ years on average.

Transhumanism is just proof that very smart people can still be pretty dumb.

It’s just bad extrapolation, like extrapolating the need of chimney sweeps based on Victorian London data alone.

 

[DarthBrooks]

Here is a thought on AI. If a twitter bot fooled you into responding to it, is it then AI? You think it is an alive thing and equate thought and emotion to it. Maybe we should differentiate between artificial intelligence and artificial consciousness.

 

[AnOminous]

Transhumanism is for rich people. Therefore it's not for me.

The fun transhumanism where you get cyber eyes that see in infrared and ultraviolet and can download an encyclopedia directly to your brain is going to be for rich people.

It won't be up to the rest of us whether we go transhuman or not, though. We'll be the ones with our digestive systems removed so they can feed us with predigested soylent and turned into shit like the Stalkers from HL2.

 

[DarthBrooks]

We have us eating pigs and cows that have been fed their brethren.. what's the difference? So we can all agree we must get post scarcity. Now getting us to quit killing each other over imaginary lines in the dirt and whomever has the sky daddy with the biggest dick, that would be a feat to see.