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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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Stackslobber posts evidence that transhumanism is a literal cult, HN crowd is not having it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43459990
In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I'd get to have a zoom function in my eye
But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.
And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it's just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They're proud it's eugenics.
@V0ldek @gerikson transhumanism has nothing to do with eugenics lmao
it's extremely established that it does
@froztbyte how to tell me you dont know anything about transhumanism without telling me you dont know anything about transhumanism:
type the words “transhumanism eugenics” into ddg and see what comes up. but mostly just fuck off tbh
@froztbyte I think @d4rkness is eliding a few steps that look clear to them, but they're basically right: eugenics is about all transhumanists can do *today*, a lot of transhumanism is warmed-over Technocracy (the Musk family's ideological wellspring), Technocracy was *def* on board with eugenics (and apartheid), so here we are: they aspire to more but eugenics is what they can do today so they're doing it.
(I've been studying transhumanism since roughly 1990 and that's my considered opinion.)
I'd agree there, and it might be that that's what they meant, but as you say it still doesn't leave the two things disconnected. didn't see them heading in the direction of amusing debate, however!
(I'd wondered from your past writings how long you'd been looking into this shit, TIL the year!)
sorry, all the mental pretzels were taken up by the other poster a few days ago, you'll have to contort your nonsense yourself. best avoid the history books though, they'll make it really hard for you to achieve what you want
@froztbyte but its not