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what’s some decent transhumanist lit

>> No.14437837

transhumanism is the most pathetic ideal ever. can't think of anything more vulgar

>> No.14437841

>>14437819
>requires 99% of humans to die
Uhhhhhh.... Hello? Based department???

>> No.14437853

industrial society and its future by theodore j. kaczynski

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>>14437819
>mfw people don't know

>> No.14437893

>>14437819
Diaspora, Greg Egan
The Culture Series, Iain Banks
The Golden Age, John C. Wright
The Age of Em, Robin Hanson

>> No.14437994

>>14437837
I'll bet youd wear glasses or hearing aids, or have a prosthetic if you needed it. transhumanism is just the logical extension as technology advances.

>> No.14438005

>>14437875

Based

>> No.14438014

>>14437819
>>14437875
This meme template is so unfunny.

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The only real literary piece of transhumanism and cyberpunk post-humanism, whether people like it or not, is Fanged Noumena. It's a demon made book. The only piece of literature that talks about that reality and comes from it.

Undecipherable garbage? Psychotic babble that deserves to be eaten by fire? Yes, and more. Much much more. And I'm having the time of my life with it.

>> No.14438078

An good popsci books?

>> No.14439125

>>14437994
No, it's a goofy sci-fi wet dream stop along a path of infinite regression that still believes in singularity

>> No.14439145

Blindsight?

>> No.14439348

fuck transhumanism


read karl huxley instead

>> No.14439645

>>14437819
anything written by rey kurzweil

>> No.14439684

>>14437837
>can't think of anything more vulgar
cringe

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is this an advertisement for a cult, the ramblings of a Harry Potter fanfic writer, or an actually good book?

>> No.14440270

>>14437837
Anprim

>> No.14441213

>>14439733
please, someone tell me if this is good or a waste of time

>> No.14441242

>>14437837
Based, imagine being such a shameful creature you'd rather get cucked by AI and have yourself replaced by robotics than live a man.

>> No.14441382

>>14441242
define “man” in a way that excludes post-humans and includes people with prosthetics without being arbitrary

>> No.14442124

>>14437875
>genes edited to perfection
Natty or nothing.

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I'd recommend starting with the beginnings:

The Russian Cosmists: The Esoteric Futurism of Nikolai Fedorov and His Followers by George M. Young

This one gives a good overview

>> No.14443176

Transhumanism is a meme guys, sorry. They'll never let you rise to their level, the best you can hope for is hydraulic joints and stupefying social media intergraton

>> No.14443182

>>14441382
having an analogue existence?

>> No.14443188

>>14443182
analog

>> No.14443346

>>14438014
Go suck a dick

>> No.14443360

>>14438014
It was good when people got what it was about, now it's too much:
>le bad thing don't like (virgin)
>le good thing do like (chad)

>> No.14443381

>>14443360
The OP chad virgin is pretty good. The Chad needs to be absurd and over the top for the meme to work.

>> No.14443413

>>14443360
This. The Virgin Walk was a collection of fairly normal behaviors that you've nonetheless probably felt insecure about at some point. Then the Chad Stride made fun of that insecurity by showing how absurd the opposite behaviors would actually be. Now it's just another template for "bad vs good".

>> No.14443438

>>14441382
Obviously you think there's a difference, since you used the term "post-human." So what do you think a post-human is?

>> No.14443635

>>14437819
I am Jazz

>> No.14443651

>>14443413
Really? I always saw it as the overt and secure vs the introvert and insecure and how their actions are juxtaposed often in a hyperbolic fashion for fun.

>> No.14444313

>>14443651
That's just my interpretation of course. Here's the original for reference.

>Hair seems to overreact to wind
I've definitely had the experience of thinking my hair is getting messed up by the wind while failing to consider that it's probably happening to others.
>Hair has been firmly fastened to never react to wind or any laws of physiques
This is so obviously absurd that it's mainly making fun of my own delusion that Chads never get windblown hair.

>Walking pace/form lacks fluidity because he struggles to "autowalk" - analogous to always manually breathing
Again, this is a sort of "cold read" where most people have probably experienced an inability to "autowalk" at some point, getting the reader to identify with the Virgin side.
>Walking form is poised like a Greek statue, perpetually in contrapposto
Then the absurd Chad alternative lampoons any insecurity the reader felt over "walking like a virgin".

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>>14444313
Forgot pic

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>>14437819
/lit/ is not a transhumanist board. All we desire is to be reunited with the One at the time of this crude body's passing.
Try asking the unenlightened of /sci/

>> No.14444575

>>14439125
>not believing in singularity
lmao

>> No.14444621

>>14439125
Singularity occurred in the summer of 2016

>> No.14445523

>>14439733
>>14441213
please