Steve writes: < I personally expect *practical* post/transhumanism to continue inevitably at an accelerated rate and see no advantage in trying to stand in it's way, but DO feel an ethical drive to try to at least caution against the kinds of technological-outrunning-of-headlights I believe already lead us to things like Dustbowl, Wildfire, Infestation, and Inundation disasters, and pointedly Anthropogenic Climate Change (which contributes to all of the above) and multigenerational Refugee Crises. >
We need better headlights: Individuals that are better able to ingest and synthesize information and to look after themselves as well as whatever group that remains after the next set of catastrophes that are surely coming. Plainly, the scientific consensus is a big joke, e.g. the Paris Agreement. The future is private research for private interests. Get with it! < As an (apparent) proponent of fairly aggressive trans-humanism, can you elaborate on what you see as the biggest promises/cautions to the ideas involved? Do you see my "caution" as wrong headed, or just irrelevant (in practice)? > I just see your caution as irrelevant. People of means that see sufficient promise will go wherever they need to do perform the procedures that interest them, whether it is for engineering their kids to be smart and attractive or for high-risk disease intervention or enhancement for themselves. There’s even an established market and television programs about it – all the people that go to plastic surgeons! Sooner or later word will get out about the successes and failures. And with one more term of Trump, there just will be no more `us’, and no meaningful concept of regulation for the greater good. Transhumanism is a quaint term that suggests a collective that is improving. It won’t be the collective, it will be a select few. Marcus
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