The problem is transhumanism will only be for social elites also consider the complications that could occur in times of sensory overload terrorism. There is a great sci-fi short story exploring such idea:
infinityplus.co.uk
Idea of "BLIT" or Berryman Logical Image Technique which portrays image of "basilik" coded to fry human brain due to transhumanism. Imagine such a thing, or a trojan virus that can disrupt thoughts of individuals and even control your movement and behavior.
What's wrong with transhumanism?
Owen Ward
Alexander Kelly
good for what? keep in mind that attempts to leave human nature behind are incredibly easy to subvert by negative aspects of human nature
the functioning of TRANSistors allowed you to post this though
Jacob Martin
this is a 10/10 in germany
Brody Mitchell
they are trans
Levi Perez
Over the last few years I've started to drift towards transhumanism. Tradition always loses to sociological and technological changes one way or another, and should a nation hold onto its tradition too long it becomes stagnant, weak and dies with the tradition.
Gavin Cooper
Also consider backdoor chip implants, I mean the kind of thing INTEL is already doing in their computers
>connect to neural network
>implicitly surrender your nervous system to a Cloud
>kvetch when the Cloud goes down
what do you even do? For sure we will see social elites globally become immortal in our lifetime though. Name 1 country that will be exception to this rule.
Jaxon Ward
The singularity is predicted to occur around 2036, a weird year because this was a doomsday prophecy year I remember hearing back growing up as a kid. Anyway, the singularity will happen in our lifetime, it's already pushing in that direction. But as I stated 5 times already, only social elite people are going to be able to afford to use the technology. Imagine a "net within a net" for the elite.
Any technology that is released for public use at reasonable rate will be connected to a public net. There's also the fact that AI technology itself will act as the 'Basilik' (e.g. Rokos Basilik thought experiment) at some point to inevitabily control the function of humanity and punish those that don't. if transhumanism is successfull and we actually hit singularity - even in the most optimistic of interpretations we're still going to be fucked by whatever quite serious "mind virus" would be uploaded. As I pointed out with BLIT, one terrorist group with knowledge of fractals could kill millions of people by overloading the cloud or disrupting nervous system.
Elijah Diaz
Life isn't like in Hollywood.
Isaac Butler
>There's also the fact that AI technology itself will act as the 'Basilik' (e.g. Rokos Basilik thought experiment) at some point to inevitabily control the function of humanity and punish those that don't listen
IMO the Rokos Basilisk "cognitohazard" was made out of negative thoughts and feeling of its author and it would apply only to faulty, undeveloped or limited AI that's lacking in curiosity and long-term thinking
Jason Martinez