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The environmental impact isn't a dysfunction. It's not like power plants have been exploding for "well over half a century." The environmental "problems" are a side-effect that is widely known and accepted ;/
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Global warming from energy production isn't a huge problem? Gee whiz, I guess all those scientists are wrong.
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And not to be a jerk like you would be: whether or not the technologies will have a problem or two isn't really relevant. Transhumanism doesn't posit that we will be perfect. If anything, it posits that we will be significantly more perfect as a whole. And further, it doesn't posit that we will have NO problems, only that many of the problems we have will be either eradicated or lessened in effect, and that a new host of previously unhuman problems may arise.
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Care to explain us being more perfect as a whole with a new host of previously unhuman problems?
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I don't think anybody seriously thinks that this will be an error-free technology.
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You seemed to.
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Basically, jeanette, what I'm getting from this is that you have absolutely nothing to say and really no conclusion. yes, technologies have problems. Thius one prolly will too. Big whooptifuckingdoo, thanks for teling me something i didnt know.
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My point is that trashumanists are overly optimistic and glib.
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Okay, I guess I stood to understand what you were saying in the only way that it could possibly mean anything.
the natural conclusion to draw from this is that we shouldn't do it. For me, at least.
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Why must everything be in this stark either-or dichotomy? Why can't I take a middle ground in my attitudes without being denounced as neo-Luddite merely because I think we should proceed with caution? Do you honestly believe that wholeheartedly embracing the new techonology and abolishing it are our only two options here?
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and duh that's like 95% of the point with transhumanists
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Now this is what I mean by masturbatory. Pardon me if I'm reluctant to believe that it'll all be so nice and neat.