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Transhumanism is our certain future, it's not about Elon Musk, it will happen regardless with or without him pushing for it, when we know for a fact something i

Transhumanism is our certain future, it's not about Elon Musk, it will happen regardless with or without him pushing for it, when we know for a fact something is coming, better accelerate. It would be delusional to think that we won't all have BCI or similar chips in the next let say 30 years, I mean which human would want to be left out and have no incomes and no interconnected capacity? Working individuals will not have a real choice (with a few exceptions of course). Realistically we will control every device around us (and agents) with our mind in the next decade. One thing he does provide is a large amount of jobs (directly & indirectly).

dtagames 4mo ago
Belief on one deterministic future is characteristic of all religions, which I why I labeled transhumanism that way. All religons are certain that they're inevitable and the folks who don't agree are delusional. While it's certainly as valid as any other religion, I'm not signing up.
- pixel_popping 4mo ago
  In the event of religion, it was also true, if we look at Muslim/Catholic countries and the history, it was inevitable, so the ones that were outsiders and refused to partake did ruin their lives somehow (and most likely many died for it), eventually, things change (the fall of religion) but that's a different step. You might not want to sign-up and it's brave and I hope you keep up those words and decide in 40 years to not go in the "VR" and the BCI and the AI world but if you don't, the consequences will be real and it will affect drastically your life and family (probably because no real incomes will be possible). You might also simply be banned in a lot of places of society and Internet, Internet soon will require to be KYC and use a phone from certain company (Google/iPhone) and physical places as well you will not be able to pay and so-on, many restaurants there is only QRcode and without a phone you just can't dine in :/ (total absurdity), you might not have the choice, Covid proved it for many, many countries did impose access with QRcode in shops and if you didn't want to partake in the tech, you couldn't access that store. I personally believe that it's kinda like currently, the ones that have a job that is already heavily assisted by AI and don't is left behind, if you are a developer today and refuse to use AI, your chances of being hired is very very low realistically, tomorrow it will be the same with new major techs, but it's true that all developers have the choice to not partake, but in practice, the damage is severe.

dtagames 4mo ago

Belief on one deterministic future is characteristic of all religions, which I why I labeled transhumanism that way. All religons are certain that they're inevitable and the folks who don't agree are delusional. While it's certainly as valid as any other religion, I'm not signing up.

pixel_popping 4mo ago
In the event of religion, it was also true, if we look at Muslim/Catholic countries and the history, it was inevitable, so the ones that were outsiders and refused to partake did ruin their lives somehow (and most likely many died for it), eventually, things change (the fall of religion) but that's a different step. You might not want to sign-up and it's brave and I hope you keep up those words and decide in 40 years to not go in the "VR" and the BCI and the AI world but if you don't, the consequences will be real and it will affect drastically your life and family (probably because no real incomes will be possible). You might also simply be banned in a lot of places of society and Internet, Internet soon will require to be KYC and use a phone from certain company (Google/iPhone) and physical places as well you will not be able to pay and so-on, many restaurants there is only QRcode and without a phone you just can't dine in :/ (total absurdity), you might not have the choice, Covid proved it for many, many countries did impose access with QRcode in shops and if you didn't want to partake in the tech, you couldn't access that store. I personally believe that it's kinda like currently, the ones that have a job that is already heavily assisted by AI and don't is left behind, if you are a developer today and refuse to use AI, your chances of being hired is very very low realistically, tomorrow it will be the same with new major techs, but it's true that all developers have the choice to not partake, but in practice, the damage is severe.