As a grouchy old sci-fi nerd, can anyone explain why they think transhumanism is bad? Some Googling just leads to people claiming that it’s ‘anthropocentric’ - as if you can’t improve your body AND also care for nature at the same time.
As a grouchy old sci-fi nerd, can anyone explain why they think transhumanism is bad? Some Googling just leads to people claiming that it’s ‘anthropocentric’ - as if you can’t improve your body AND also care for nature at the same time.
Just build some power line SMH my head
It’s not an oh-marge, it’s ho-mahg-ee.
Well, I didn’t know I needed punk/emo Peach (Bowser?), but I do now.
This is why we need to start handling this stuff systemically. Mechanically limit maximum vehicle speed in cars the same way they do in ebikes. Phones lock when cell towers sense them going over X mph. Narrow roads and raise crosswalks.
No, you don’t have the ‘freedom’ to drive however you want, wherever you want. Never have; it’s completely ahistorical. Design this shit with intention instead of just slapping roads everywhere.
I get your concern (this is the first time I’m hearing about it and oof). I would however point out that the core of transhumanism is the idea that we should have the freedom to modify our own bodies however we want. This is how I’ve always heard it used and how I’m going to keep using it.
I do understand where those people are coming from, though. If you have the technology to e.g. eliminate sickle cell anemia and choose not to do it, that’s as much eugenics as choosing to do so. I don’t know how to square that with individual liberty. Having parents decide is…not necessarily a great solution. Having society decide is also not a good solution, but probably the one we’ll have to end up doing.