[simoncion]

> The whole idea of trans-humanism, so beloved by VCs and the AI cult, seems borderline psychopathic to me.

Do you find HRT and gender-affirming surgeries to be borderline psychopathic? How about safe and effective cures for genetic, viral, and bacterial maladies that cripple or kill?

The big things about transhumanism are to figure out how fix the things that damage and destroy us, and figure out how to let each person shape themselves to be the best version of them possible. If your best you is a baseline human, then, great! More power to you! I know that mine sure as fuck isn't.

Will there be lots of trouble on the way towards teching up so that everyone can be the best version of themselves possible? Absolutely. Hell, we appear to be generally incapable of figuring out something so simple as how to provide good lives for everyone even if there's no useful work for them to do.

[jubilanti]

> The big things about transhumanism are to figure out how fix the things that damage and destroy us, and figure out how to let each person shape themselves to be the best version of them possible.

Come on, by that vague of a definition, Aristotle and Confucius were apparently transhumanists.

[jimbokun]

This is all bullshit.

Transhumanism when put into practice will be about changing our environment to take away everything that allows humans to thrive and be happy and fulfilled.

It's about the destruction of families, communities, and human cultures built up over millennia with no serious thought put into what comes next and why it might or might not be better for human beings.

> How about safe and effective cures for genetic, viral, and bacterial maladies that cripple or kill?

This is not Transhumanism, the desire for these things far pre-date Transhumanism as a philosophy.

> Hell, we appear to be generally incapable of figuring out something so simple as how to provide good lives for everyone even if there's no useful work for them to do.

So maybe we work on that before diving head long into the post human future?

[renegade-otter]

You mean the same people who want to destroy the fabric of civilization - norms, caring for one another, feeling shame - also care deeply about us? REALLY...

It's the same as Elon Musk "worrying" about saving humans and then it turns out it's all racism after all.

> Do you find HRT and gender-affirming surgeries to be borderline psychopathic?

What. These current class of tech oligarch support MAGA, which came to power with this being the major culture war flashpoint. They didn't seem to mind.