You seem to be taking a statement of the form (to my reading):
“X appears to imply Y, but it doesn’t (assertion). In fact, Y is false (separate assertion).”
and reading it as:
“X appears to imply Y, but I’m a Y-disbeliever (premise). Therefore, Y is false (inference from premise).”
Basically, it seems like you’re reading “I’m a transhumanist” as a statement about InquilineKea from which they fallaciously draw a conclusion about reality, while I’m reading it as a disguised direct statement about reality, semantically equivalent to “pursuing the right technologies has positive expected value” (or whatever).
A more charitable interpretation of your post is that you’re arguing against belief-as-identity in general, and using “I’m a transhumanist” as an example of it, but if so that’s not clear to me.
I am mostly arguing against belief-as-identity and bottom-line reasoning in general. I agree that the original statement could be interpreted in different ways.
You seem to be taking a statement of the form (to my reading):
“X appears to imply Y, but it doesn’t (assertion). In fact, Y is false (separate assertion).”
and reading it as:
“X appears to imply Y, but I’m a Y-disbeliever (premise). Therefore, Y is false (inference from premise).”
Basically, it seems like you’re reading “I’m a transhumanist” as a statement about InquilineKea from which they fallaciously draw a conclusion about reality, while I’m reading it as a disguised direct statement about reality, semantically equivalent to “pursuing the right technologies has positive expected value” (or whatever).
A more charitable interpretation of your post is that you’re arguing against belief-as-identity in general, and using “I’m a transhumanist” as an example of it, but if so that’s not clear to me.
I am mostly arguing against belief-as-identity and bottom-line reasoning in general. I agree that the original statement could be interpreted in different ways.
The “I am still a transhumanist” here might be another example of that; possibly more high-profile due to being part of the Fun Theory sequence.