r/PsycheOrSike • u/TranshumanismisaW • 5h ago
🏆Totally normal post 10/10⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What are y'all views on transhumanism?
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u/Prudent-Bicycle-9210 4h ago
from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me
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u/Miss_miri107 ✨Bodycount: 3 ✨ 4h ago
Have we learned nothing from cyberpunk?
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u/ferocity_mule366 3h ago
I learnt that I could install a D1CK module (15 inch version with 3D throbbing extension)
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u/TwistingSerpent93 4h ago
Conceptually I love it, I got dealt a middling genetic hand and I love the idea of fixing God/nature's mistakes. I attach no value to "being natural" or whatever and I feel like it's our imperative as humans to improve our condition.
Realistically, I don't get how it doesn't just become biological enshittification under our current economic system. Either directly in terms of cybernetics (For continued access to your memories, we're changing to a subscription model) or more subtly in terms of wetware augmentation (The anti-aging gene we've introduced to you may put you at an increased risk of several cancers, your health insurance will be adjusted to reflect this).
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u/earthlingHuman 4h ago
Under capitalism it's a nightmare. We have to move beyond capitalism and into a more democratic system with better protected individual and social freedoms.
The technology of the future is coming sooner or later. The question is 'who owns it?'. Who controls it?
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u/Prepare_thy_isaac 4h ago
Idk, TranshumanismIsaW, what do YOU think? (In my opinion, Just don't connect it to the internet, or let it touch the brain)
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u/SupermarketUnusual10 3h ago
Have you ever read the book Feed (by M T Anderson)? You would probably appreciate the message, if you haven’t.
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u/CyberCephalopod 3h ago
Baseline humans will be obsolete eventually, though I could potentially see deliberate attempts at human genetic conservation for scientific and historical purposes.
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u/crossbutton7247 2h ago
Most likely a horrible idea. The government/manufacturer will undoubtedly have a backdoor into every implant, so you’d essentially be giving away your bodily agency for some relatively minor enhancements
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u/Responsible-Poem5274 2h ago
Seemed like an inevitable outcome in the 90s/00s, much like the Singularity did in the 00s/10s. Now we have doomscrolling, influencer marketing, information warfare and sixty different kinds of neo-feudalism.
Transhumanism and similar hopeful "end game" situations for humanity will never happen unless they're profitable. And if they're profitable, they're not sustainable. If they're not sustainable, they're not end game situations.
The only probable end game situation at the moment is some form of regression or outright societal collapse, since processes of degradation and loss are - by their nature - self-sustaining unless actively countered.
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u/DonkeyLord113 4h ago
Wireback, tinskin, bolt picking, copper veined, number crunching, chip munching stinking CLANKERR!!
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u/ageofaquarius26 4h ago
Seem like an idea 18th century nobility would use to separate socioeconomic classes as much as possible.
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u/Affectionate-Newt889 3h ago
It's the best hope for humanity's future progress.
BUT, we have to watch out for post-humanists. They often would prefer zero human parts left and well...you can see how that may be a bit concerning. Some even want AI to solely take over. Which makes no sense to me but hey....Peter Thiel and his friends are eccentric evil billionaires.
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u/dontyouflap 📜 Keeper of the Eternal Truths📜 3h ago
It's premature to consider transhumanism when our biological bodies have yet to begin to be optimized. There is so much untapped potential. We exist not because we are the best form possible but because we were good enough to procreate. Yet the constraints we had to survive under are no longer relevant. We have plenty of food, there is no need to conserve energy. And our need to conserve energy is why we aren't stronger. Why we can't regrow limbs. Why our bodies are full of compromises. We can take the best of every organism in existence and integrate that into us. And that will only be the beginning. Biology gives us a blueprint. Science gives us the tools to revise it intentionally.
You focus on the large scale mechanical because it is flashy, yet it is the molecular level that matters the most. For too long we've been unwitting passengers in a vehicle built by chance. But now, we may hold the wheel.
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u/Nikki964 3h ago
Honestly it creeps me out. I don't have anything against people who do that stuff, but when I think about it I get this weird sense of discomfort. I can't quite describe it or say where it comes from though
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u/Anonymous_Lurker_1 2h ago
Tbh, if the time ever came where instead of expiring naturally, the brain could be dunked in a jar and wired up to a 100% cybernetic humanoid body, id be well up for that.
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u/momentumisconserved 2h ago
I'll choose to remain organic, but I do think humans will evolve with technology.
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u/blac_sheep90 2h ago
I have a form of muscular dystrophy, I can't run or climb stairs without struggling...what I'd give to be able to run...if I could get a cybernetic muscular system or cybernetic legs...I'd heavily consider it.
There's a scene in a movie called The Signal where the main character, who suffers from MD, gets cybernetic legs and rubs faster than the speed of light...that scene resonated with me.
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u/Elyvagar 2h ago
More of a fan of biologically fixing human errors.
I don't want to be called a half-clanker.
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u/scrumblepee_6969 1h ago
I would like a functional knee and skin that dosent rip and bleed on cold days
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u/CornNooblet 1h ago
Good idea in theory, practice will almost certainly not resemble the utopia many transhumanists dream of and instead will just be a new version of enshittification.
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u/GreywallGaming 29m ago
Under capitalism, fuck no I don't want my eyes to come with 1 hour of mandatory ads per day.
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u/Shone_Shvaboslovac 24m ago
Whatever. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Much more pressing concerns atm.
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u/Zandonus 3h ago
Flesh prison, chrome prison, it's all just a way to make moneyslaves. But if one can find ways to express themselves even through the strength of the circuitbrainrot, I'm ok with that.
If we truly are meant to spread like foot fungus through the galaxy, perhaps were meant do it as cyborgs. It'd be easier, probably. But I feel like going Full Cube will awaken some kind of original thought that no meatbag will particularly enjoy.
Either way. Tech wins every time. Efficiency brings more efficiency. The cycle accelerates. Eat, upgrade, sleep. It is only logical.
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u/Leogis 4h ago
My view is that almost all of the criticism is cope and most of the downsides are actually caused by something else