The ideas of transhumanism and the "singularity" in the current vernacular are overhyped as fuck, but there is something to the idea of machines becoming a standard part of humans in the near future. What do you guys think of the most likely scenarios to fold out as wetware becomes more mainstream, if ever?
The ideas of transhumanism and the "singularity" in the current vernacular are overhyped as fuck...
Brayden Sanders
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Julian Parker
we are fucking humans, we are not yet ready for that shit... we still have fucking primitive problems to solve in general
Samuel Morgan
We never will be, humans are idiots.
Angel Sullivan
Fuck it. Let's do it now. What's the worst that will happen?
Jack White
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Brayden Turner
We have been tool users since before our current species existed. Humans have always relied on technology, and technology is part of humanity. Nothing about this is fundamentally new.
Does it really make a difference whether I instantly send this message across the world to people I'll never physically meet using my fingers or using an implant?
Adam Walker
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Cameron Gomez
Why do some people hate the future?
Angel Campbell
Replacing or attaching things to your bodyparts is just dumb.
We've discovered just how many things you can conveniently stick into a small slab in your pocket, there's very little benefit from drilling it permanently onto your arm.
Even in a hypothetical future scenario where we have holograms and shit, it would still be more convenient to have a ring or a necklace or a piece of headgear that can project shit in front of you, instead of cutting up your body just to install a massive security and privacy vulnerability onto it.
The only scenario where it would be feasible is when our technology can augment the physical capabilities of the human body, like strength and endurance. Until that happens it's just pointless tech fetishism, and after that it's still tech fetishism because you're not going to fucking walk to the store, you're going to drive there with a car like the lazy piece of shit you are.
Evan Lewis
And no, not really
Logan Cruz
It'll make "death by self-driving car" for those guilty of wrongthink seem merciful by comparison.
Jaxson Sanchez
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Both of the above are possible and have been achieved scientifically, it's only a matter of time now.
Tyler Bailey
The whole world is fucked.
How can I accept transhumanism with the botnet in control of everything?
I won't even feel safe with a wirelessly controlled pacemaker.
IoT will kill us all.
The only way I could accept transhuman parts is that it is seL4 with no botnet.
SAVE OUR SOULS
Gavin Gonzalez
Stop talking about things you don't understand. Whenever I see "seL4" on Holla Forums I feel pain in my soul
Ryan Barnes
But not the over used word botnet?
You don't understand it either.
William Cook
you gotta admit those bionic leg replacers are pretty nice for people who lost theirs in an accident
Jonathan Allen
Yeah it's the tool paradox. You invent a tool to free you from some menial task, but to use the tool you have to break other tasks into tool-usable tasks. Thereby, ending up with even more of the menial task than you started with.
Having instant communication at your fingertips means most people now spend much much more of their lives engaging in pointless small talk than ever before.
Do you think having an implant in your head will make no difference? I would bet that in 5-10 years people would lose the ability to think.
Matthew White
Google BranChip™ augmented reality implants become mandatory to function as a normal member of society. The implant automatically reports violators of hate thought laws to the police and constantly monitors your every sensation, thought, and feeling for advertising metrics, all in order to provide you with a Safe© and Immersive® experience.
Kayden Bennett
Botnet is just a word with a vague meaning (on imageboards), but seL4 is a real thing that really exists. And seL4 is pretty neat, but in the end it's nothing more than a small system part that has been shown to work as designed. It doesn't prevent all kinds of malicious tampering and it doesn't mean that the other parts of the system will behave correctly. Its name mostly gets thrown around as a sort of miracle solution.
Aiden Morales
the future is looking very bright
Brody Miller
In the limited, ancient sense of the word maybe but you are arguing within the limits of old concepts. Maybe it's the concept that is outdated and needs updating? Adaptability is key, not using old concepts to reason with new ideas.
Asher Thomas
Written language is an outdated concept.
Isaac Bennett
Give me twelve years and a haskell compiler written in brainfuck
Justin Smith
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Jaxon Richardson
No.
Dominic Jackson
smh tbh fam
Aiden Moore
How will the CIA niggers stay in a job then?
Logan Richardson
Get the fuck out.
Landon White
why would they kill a member of society when they can just wipe your memory chip and reprogram you.
Colton Sanders
women are trying to get sexbots banned and artificial wombs banned, claiming they are demeaning to women and at the same time have had no problem with dildo's for the past 60 years.
Ethan Ward
It's a Jewish thing.
Jack Reed
Good job
Ethan Collins
The gap between rich and poor becomes irrecoverable as the poor are forced to be 'enhanced' by effectively turning them into obedient highly efficient slaves while the rich remove emotion and guilt and become inhumanely good at manipulating people.
Jacob Wilson
The difference is that one of them isn't inside me.
Brody Campbell
Idiot. Reduce the image size before uploading. Some of us are trying to conserve bandwidth.
Chase Russell
This isn't ThinkPads.com you stupid fagola.
Jeremiah Price
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Dominic Sanchez
Obvious fallacy is obvious.
Julian Stewart
Explain that to a live-saving transplant recipient, or even just a prosthetics replacement patient.
Noah Sanchez
If you squint just enough you can almost read it.
Sebastian Reyes
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Ryan Moore
reality
Intelligent Systems of Control
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Logan Parker
Every single time in history a human went against their own nature it went wrong. Transhumanism will by definition be the downfall of humanity and the only use for technology that can mimic humane nature is for making 3DPD irrelevant.
Charles Mitchell
Can you elaborate?
Also, who are you quoting?
David Brooks
Surely you bait the user with that.
If not, you must have written that post before you existed.
Jeremiah Perez
on second thoughts.... GO BACK!
You smell shariablue.
Noah White
I'm still not sure what you mean. Do you think there's a contradiction in having used tools since before our species existed? Species have an origin, we have ancestors from before homo sapiens existed. They used tools.
Logan Clark
Somebody please make a michael bay edit of this
Cooper Reyes
When 3DPD becomes irrelevant then the gays will rule the Earth.