As a Transhumanist (Singularitarian), it's a fairly new realization for me that Transhumanism is currently/largely seen as a Silicon-Valley, Individualistic, Libertarian philosophy. I really can't...
he stated, "Transhumanists must favor the free world and free market to make its movement as powerful and successful as possible,"
As a Transhumanist (Singularitarian), it's a fairly new realization for me that Transhumanism is currently/largely seen as a Silicon-Valley, Individualistic, Libertarian philosophy. I really can't wrap my mind around it, to be honest.
In a future in which human-labor is not required, and people have the ultimate sovereignty over their own bodies and minds, that to me seems like the prime opportunity for a social-utopia. All who desire enhancements, modifications, or augmentations ought to be able to obtain them, for little or no cost. The concepts of monetary wealth or human labor begin to break down in this sort of scenario, I think. We won't need to abide by the same constructs that drive things now. Why not uplift everyone who wants it? If the lives of everyone could be improved, it seems self-evident that the lives of everyone should be improved.
I'm not sure that transhumanism can exist without a post-scarcity economy. If you're really planning to evade mortality, you have to build an economic system that will remain robust even when you...
I'm not sure that transhumanism can exist without a post-scarcity economy. If you're really planning to evade mortality, you have to build an economic system that will remain robust even when you no longer have direct command and control.
Otherwise, who's going to maintain the infrastructure that a tiny few have uploaded into? Who would bother to create a future that leaves them behind, without a level of coercion that contains the seeds of its own destruction?
As a Transhumanist (Singularitarian), it's a fairly new realization for me that Transhumanism is currently/largely seen as a Silicon-Valley, Individualistic, Libertarian philosophy. I really can't wrap my mind around it, to be honest.
In a future in which human-labor is not required, and people have the ultimate sovereignty over their own bodies and minds, that to me seems like the prime opportunity for a social-utopia. All who desire enhancements, modifications, or augmentations ought to be able to obtain them, for little or no cost. The concepts of monetary wealth or human labor begin to break down in this sort of scenario, I think. We won't need to abide by the same constructs that drive things now. Why not uplift everyone who wants it? If the lives of everyone could be improved, it seems self-evident that the lives of everyone should be improved.
I'm not sure that transhumanism can exist without a post-scarcity economy. If you're really planning to evade mortality, you have to build an economic system that will remain robust even when you no longer have direct command and control.
Otherwise, who's going to maintain the infrastructure that a tiny few have uploaded into? Who would bother to create a future that leaves them behind, without a level of coercion that contains the seeds of its own destruction?
Transhumanism does not require cannibalism.