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Transhumanism and Its Silly Critics
Techno-realism, media cool kids, and why the future doesn't have to suck
From cavemen using spears half a million years ago, to Sumerians creating a non-brain-based repository of information with clay tablets, to the development of vaccines against deadly and debilitating viruses, human history has been nothing if not a long exercise in technological self-improvement. Whether it’s the generative AIs that are all the rage today like ChatGPT or Stable Diffusion, or the incredibly simplistic red koopas in Super Mario Bros that know to turn around when they come to a ledge, the fact is artificial intelligence is a thing that demonstrably exists. And yet, I somehow doubt that transhumanism’s left-leaning critics are eager to join hands with integralists, post-liberals, and religio-fascists in rolling back the clocks to undo the pill and the sexual revolution, because they recognize that the pros outweigh the cons a hundred times over.
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