What will people do, when almost everything they currently do is driven by exactly those limits that it is the transhuman vision to eliminate? Think of everything you have done today—how much of it would a transhuman you in a transhuman world have done?
What I would want to do, or what I think I would do? I certainly would want to hold on my values, but I’m not yet sure which ones.
I don’t see how you can just crank these very specialized phenomena several orders of magnitude higher and still remain remotely human. That’s the point of the essay- we wind up as something we would view as monstrous today.
What I would want to do, or what I think I would do? I certainly would want to hold on my values, but I’m not yet sure which ones.
I don’t see how you can just crank these very specialized phenomena several orders of magnitude higher and still remain remotely human. That’s the point of the essay- we wind up as something we would view as monstrous today.