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> we are all transhumanists together here You assume rather a lot, don't you?

• notahacker 11y ago
  See, I'm all in favour of cautious experiments with human body enhancement, but I've always seen people that choose to identify as transhumanists (and other forms of singularity believers) as the materialist equivalent of religious millennialists, believing that [near]immortality on earth will come before the end of their natural life - if only people will listen to them - with a keen desperation. Zoltan Istvan's an interesting guy though.
• reasonattlm 11y ago
  One of the points of transhumanism is that all technological advancement overcomes limits on the human condition, and one shouldn't draw artificial lines between, say, overcoming the limit of not being able to talk to people at a distance, and overcoming the limit of aging to death. You have a mobile phone and think that mobile phones are useful, helpful things because they let you do things that you couldn't do without one? Congratulations, you're a transhumanist. Transhumanism traditionally focuses on radical new technological directions precisely because most people are irrational in creating dividing lines between things that are conceptually exactly the same.