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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Transhumanism—if it happens at all—is not happening anytime soon. Like, not for thousands of years if ever.

  Listening to people talk about transhumanism today is like seeing people imagine flying cars in the 1950s. “Oh we’ve got this cool technology surely it means this wild extrapolation is right around the corner.”

  Give me a break.

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• masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s a difference between the want for convergence with tech for all, if they want

  Vs.

  We’re going to transfer your consciousness into a virtual world and use you for biofuel while we, the powerful enjoy the wealth of your sacrifice.

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  lemmy.ca/post/34658048/13290827

  It’s called the dark enlightenment.

  This article warns from way back in 2017 qz.com/…/the-neo-fascist-philosophy-that-underpin…

  They also want to use you for biofuel.

  No, I’m not fucking kidding. These people are pure evil

  “The trouble with the biodiesel solution is that no one would want to live in a city whose public transportation was fueled, even just partly, by the distilled remains of its late underclass. However, it helps us describe the problem we are trying to solve. Our goal, in short, is a humane alternative to genocide.”

  newrepublic.com/…/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techn…

  vanityfair.com/…/inside-the-new-right-where-peter…

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

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  • Nico_198X@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why are we not Luigi’ing these people?

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Not it. People are worried bout what heir brand of authoritarin capitalism will do with transhumnism.

  Whenever you see technoligical skepticism, it’s almost always about its effects on the working class as used by the ruling class of the time. If for example you opened up a new public research agency for AI with the short term goal of developing open source AI and the long term promise to reduce the work week for all through AI productivity advancement, I think you’d get broad support.

  Today however we hear private execs left front and centre salivating over the layoffs they’d be able to achieve thanks to AI, or over the new profit growth they’re gonna achieve. Most people know they ain’t getting any of that profit and would instead be stuck with the layoffs and inequality, among other negative effects. And history tells us this is a well founded concern.

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• IcyToes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Technology is a great thing that can assist us, when it changes who we are it goes too far.

  I love chocolate. I don’t eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Nuance is indeed a thing.

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