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Sometimes it seems really strange to me how much of “transhumanism” is focused on biological immortality. For me, transhumanism is almost entirely about trans people and otherkin and tulpas and multiple systems and neurotypes that haven’t yet been named and neurotypes that don’t yet exist and making your body a garden. It’s about all the weird monsters getting to be as weird and monstrous as they want.
And then I see people calling themselves transhumanists who just want to keep doing what they’ve been doing, but for longer. And my gut reaction is, well, I guess that’s a worthy goal. But it’s not very #aesthetic.
My gut hates anyone who calls themselves a transhumanist and doesn’t have magnets in their fingers
What are the benefits of finger magnets?
They give you an extra sense. They push the bounds of the human form. People who call themselves transhumanists but don’t engage in things like that are just saying “when body modification tech becomes cheap and common and socially accepted I might engage in it” which is true of everyone except the Amish. It’s as radical a stance as “when the price comes down I might buy a smart watch”
There’s a difference between “I want to modify my body” and “There exists no body modification that I don’t want”.
I don’t want a magnet in my finger. I don’t think I’d get much use out of sensing magnetic fields, and I’d like to maintain the ability to get an MRI if I need one.
Yeah fair, but if you aren’t getting any body mods at all then it seems very silly to me to call yourself transhumanist. It’s like calling yourself Christian but not doing the whole Jesus thing, or calling yourself a Star Wars fan without having seen any of the movies.
We still live in a world where people are comforted after the death of a loved one by being told things like, “it was their time.”
As long as that’s true, thinking that death is bad will still a radical position.