Stackslobber posts evidence that transhumanism is a literal cult, HN crowd is not having it
In my head transhumanism is this cool idea where I’d get to have a zoom function in my eye
But of course none of that could exist in our capitalist hellscape because of just all the reasons the ruling class would use it to opress the working class.
And then you find out what transhumanists actually advocate for and it’s just eugenics. Like without even a tiny bit of plausible deniability. They’re proud it’s eugenics.
@veronica@mastodon.online@V0ldek @gerikson In Alastair Reynolds' "Blue Remembered Earth", they have an implant that registers and intercepts the act of committing a crime, and incapacitate you, if I recall correctly. They have the ultimate surveillance state in any case.
His SciFi is as always both fascinating and very disturbing.