“crazy enlightened beings doing crazy transhuman stuff” will be bad for “regular” biological humans
For me, a crux of a future that’s good for humanity is giving the biological humans the resources and the freedom to become the enlightened transhuman beings themselves, with no hard ceiling on relevance in the long run. Rather than only letting some originally-humans to grow into more powerful but still purely ornamental roles, or not letting them grow at all, or not letting them think faster and do checkpointing and multiple instantiations of the mind states using a non-biological cognitive substrate, or letting them unwillingly die of old age or disease. (For those who so choose, under their own direction rather than only through externally imposed uplifting protocols, even if that leaves it no more straightforward than world-class success of some kind today, to reach a sensible outcome.)
This in particular implies reasonable resources being left to those who remain/become regular biological humans (or take their time growing up), including through influence of some of these originally-human beings who happen to consider that a good thing to ensure.
For me, a crux of a future that’s good for humanity is giving the biological humans the resources and the freedom to become the enlightened transhuman beings themselves, with no hard ceiling on relevance in the long run. Rather than only letting some originally-humans to grow into more powerful but still purely ornamental roles, or not letting them grow at all, or not letting them think faster and do checkpointing and multiple instantiations of the mind states using a non-biological cognitive substrate, or letting them unwillingly die of old age or disease. (For those who so choose, under their own direction rather than only through externally imposed uplifting protocols, even if that leaves it no more straightforward than world-class success of some kind today, to reach a sensible outcome.)
This in particular implies reasonable resources being left to those who remain/become regular biological humans (or take their time growing up), including through influence of some of these originally-human beings who happen to consider that a good thing to ensure.
Edit: Expanded into a post.