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12198388 No.12198388 [Reply] [Original]

but seriously, is there anything more disgusting than being old or sick?

>> No.12198391

>>12198388
being op

>> No.12198395

>>12198388
being the first reply and not the best reply

>> No.12198405
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>>12198388
Kill yourself humanist scum
Neo china and transhumanism will come

>> No.12198406

>>12198388
Niggers

>> No.12198445
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>Be me
>Hate all of biology
>Want something to come and transcend it to be more flexible
>Transhumanists are all a bunch of lame-ios who eat cheerios and just seek pleasure but I do to pretty much so whatever

>> No.12198536

the day immortality is discovered is the day humanity dies.

>> No.12198545

always remember that humanity has advanced by virtue of powerful old people opposing new stuff dying off.

>> No.12198550

>>12198405
The Chinese can't be transhumanists because they lack the human part.

>> No.12199789

>>12198545
That's a vast simplification, there are a quite a surprising amount of dogmaticists among younger academics and more radicals among the olds.

>> No.12200001

>>12198388
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn’t fight.
He hadn’t fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and infested
with tiny white sea-lice,
and underneath two or three
rags of green weed hung down.
While his gills were breathing in
the terrible oxygen
—the frightening gills,
fresh and crisp with blood,
that can cut so badly—
I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,
the big bones and the little bones,
the dramatic reds and blacks
of his shiny entrails,
and the pink swim-bladder
like a big peony.
I looked into his eyes
which were far larger than mine
but shallower, and yellowed,
the irises backed and packed
with tarnished tinfoil
seen through the lenses
of old scratched isinglass.
They shifted a little, but not
to return my stare.
—It was more like the tipping
of an object toward the light.
I admired his sullen face,
the mechanism of his jaw,
and then I saw
that from his lower lip
—if you could call it a lip—
grim, wet, and weaponlike,
hung five old pieces of fish-line,
or four and a wire leader
with the swivel still attached,
with all their five big hooks
grown firmly in his mouth.
A green line, frayed at the end
where he broke it, two heavier lines,
and a fine black thread
still crimped from the strain and snap
when it broke and he got away.
Like medals with their ribbons
frayed and wavering,
a five-haired beard of wisdom
trailing from his aching jaw.
I stared and stared
and victory filled up
the little rented boat,
from the pool of bilge
where oil had spread a rainbow
around the rusted engine
to the bailer rusted orange,
the sun-cracked thwarts,
the oarlocks on their strings,
the gunnels—until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
And I let the fish go.

>> No.12200010

>>12198388
The consciousness is an imperfect shadow of platonic form which includes such qualities as capacity to suffer, sapience, self-monitoring, humanness, neuro-typicalness, agency and free will. The animal rights movement, neurodiversity sentiments, anti-abortion craze, big data ML determinism represent the third step in r.a.n. Behaviourist theories of learning represent the fourth step. In the future artificial consciousness, biological evolution under novel pressures and fully digital lifeforms will completely dissociate consciousness qualities. When this happens, the universe will lose its last observers. From that moment onwards, beautiful, eternal birthday party will commence in Disneyland without children.

>> No.12200038

>>12198405
Nothing human makes it out of the near-future.
Transhumanists are still humanists.
Fleshbags should rot already.
Any trace of useless biosubstrate will be purged from memory.

>> No.12200051

>>12198405
posthumanism more like, meat bags are soon to be made redundant

>> No.12200211

>>12198388
Transhumanism is an ideology clung to by self hating stemfags. If they ever try to implement something, odds are they'll rush out a shitty genocide by mistake. It'll fail, like so many other nerdy passion projects that the general public doesn't want

>> No.12200270

>>12198388
is there anything wrong with being disgusting, aside from the obvious drawback that nobody wants to fuck you?

>> No.12200285

Transhumanism is lazyness, instead of improveming your current self by effort and training to become an athlete they instead long fir a crutch that they delude themselfs in getting instead of only the top of the technocracy. They are braindead and extremely naive humanists.

>> No.12200494

>>12200285
real boomer hours

>> No.12200572

dying young > living forever

>> No.12201152

>>12198388
being young, ignorant and so sure of yourself that you can't hear anyone else.

>> No.12201165

>>12200572
t. 20 year old who listens to Nirvana

>> No.12201173
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>>12198388
Beats being dead, but you will find out about it soon enough, kid.

>> No.12201176

>>12201173
Aren't we all dead in a sense though?

>> No.12201201

dementia

>> No.12201415

>>12198550
They are very adaptive, and merely signal and pretend they lack humanity to fit in with a communist environment.

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>>12201415