I know what transhumanism is, but people who are not, for example, academics in a related field calling themselves a transhumanist makes no sense to me. Like, as a transhumanist, what do you do?

Are these people just identity-hungry fans of a genre of sci-fi? Are they saying we shouldn't work to solve societal problems because technology will do it for us? Do they just watch a lot of youtube videos about it?

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Aren't they just a bunch of stemlords who subscribes to a weird offshoot of liberal solutionism that involves fixing the world by putting scifi brain chips in people?

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      The stemlords who do that often do reference Neuromancer and the Singularity as foundational, often without having read the former or worked through stuff related with it.