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It's not about Uber, it's about the fact that we have a lot of experience with etching silicon while having almost no clue how to optimise our own behaviours fo
by TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
It's not about Uber, it's about the fact that we have a lot of experience with etching silicon while having almost no clue how to optimise our own behaviours for maximum collective intelligence.
And until we do we're not going to be able to build lasting, stable systems for humans to live in.
Hyper-upgrading human hardware without understanding our own psychology is going to to make our already dysfunctional systems even more hostile and aggressively un-survivable.
- ta988 6y agoIt is especially a concern for me as many of the more vocal proponents and moving forces of transhumanism overlap greatly with the people pushing completely inhuman and dysfunctional technologies.
- XargonEnder 6y agoI've heard many transhumanists complain that that ignorance you're pointing to is holding back transhuman progress.