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Transhumanism Should Focus on Inequality, Not Living Forever
Opinion | Instead of trying to extend the lives of a privileged few, we should invest in improving the lives of all people today.
Steve Carell’s character — who has been likened to Palantir cofounder Peter Thiel — exclaims, “I take Kant very seriously!” and spends much of the movie evaluating how he and his ultrawealthy friends can reshape the global order with the digital tools they’ve collectively invented. Overcoming our biology isn’t about immortality or the digitization of the human, but putting a stop to the self-interest that has led to the unequal societies, including widespread health inequalities, we see in countries like the United States today. This Machiavellian nature, which I think is too often ignored in the social sciences today, has a dark implication: To the extent that maliciously exploitative people take power, they will structure society in a way that benefits them and their progeny over time, and that is almost always at the expense of others around them.
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