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?
Isn't that just medicine and science though? I 100% agree with what you have said, I'm just not sure if it's what I'd call transhumanism. Because if it is, I'm technically a first generation transhumanist with a cyborg spine, and I'm not sure if that's how I view myself. Or even want to associate with it.
Yes, but a lot of people are opposed to "medicine" that involve enhancement, radical modification, or even radical repair like in anti aging. Think of the social opprobrium around cosmetic surgery, for instance. Or stem cells a decade or two ago. I saw good communists express that science was "playing god"
A positive interpretation of Transhumanism would simply be "the support of social and technological structures that allow the destruction of negative parts of the human condition." Mostly that means radical medicine. For some AI and uploading and the singularity, which aren't ideas with no support behind them but are largely Bazingafied.
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