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Isn't internet access at your fingertips a form of transhumanism? So maybe it's ok, people do indeed "know" more in an objective sense.

• rellekio 5y ago
  Issue comes in when it gives you the experience of knowing more than you think and making judgements based off of that feeling. My concern is the difficulty of tracking down sources years later without a means of reference. Unless you are actively archiving and organizing those links in a useful way. What we have is more prone to forgetfulness, but also at the time that is our strength. Still a pain though
  • mistermann 5y ago
    > My concern is the difficulty of tracking down sources years later without a means of reference. Also when the "facts" in one's sources change, as we've seen in journalism in the past few years.
• legrande 5y ago
  > Isn't internet access at your fingertips a form of transhumanism Well to some degree. At some stage we will forgo having a smartphone and have Google hardwired to our brain. I think that's where we're heading eventually. Tech companies want to be inside our head (if they're not already). Musk talks about the bandwidth problem of accessing information. If it was super readily available (i.e hardwired to our brain), then we could be superhuman. This is why we're to some extent already cyborgs, just not in the cyberpunk aesthetic way of being half machine half human, but we're already half-way there with smartphones.
  • svnt 5y ago
    > Musk talks about the bandwidth problem of accessing information. Has he thought about using the eyeballs? I have it on good authority that the eyeballs have a standard fuckton of functional bandwidth.