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[Anonymous No.8496665]

Is transhumanism bullshit? Will it ever be feasible?

[Anonymous No.8496688]

>>8496665
No it's possible we just don't have the technology yet

[Anonymous No.8496959]

>>8496665

I suppose the basic assumption that it's possible could really rest in the face that the human body, as a machine, is optimised to work under conditions of extreme energy scarcity.

As you can imagine, if you've got a plentiful supply of energy, there's lots of optimisation to be done. The human brain is basically shit at so many things. Despite all the immense complexity and massively parallel wiring, you can still only hold about 8 digits in your short term memory.

It's not going to take much to improve upon human intelligence once we get going on some of the core algorithms. Looks like DeepMind will probably begin to piece together something a bit more likely a thinking/knowledge engine within about 10 years.

[Anonymous No.8497145]

>>8496665
Depends on which "type" of transhumanism you're looking at. Brain in a jar with supporting parallel processors might actually be feasible by the end of the century. Lots of work being done on interpreting and producing brain signals, creating computer/neuron interfaces and (even with what little work is done with stem cells) its not like the brain really suffers from the hayflick limit.

Transhuman in the sense of "evolving beyond our physical limitations" isn't that far off too, with shit like CRISPR and radiation modification progressing pretty well.

I think transhumanism is feasible in some forms now (or rather in the near future), its the morality of it in the form our current society takes thats holding and halting it (for pretty acceptable reasons IMHO)