Do you want you or your offspring to be a transhuman?

[Jack Heinlen]

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c7eb8502-cda3-11d9-9a8a-00000e2511c8.html

[Katherine]

Jack, you've turned into Karen. :D

Seriously though, this seems like a bad SciFi novel just waitng to happen.

[LeeG]

Some folks have been for years, transforming themselves with behaviour/mood altering medications.

[Ian McColgin]

Fukuyama tends to get a bit over-the-top excited about things that are sorta true if you look sideways. As he knows, the human organism is incredibly complex - so complex that the moral quandaries he raises are the remotest of hypotheticals sometime way in the future.

[LeeG]

yeah,,what he said. ;)

Kurzweils book, the Age of Spiritual Machines, is entertaining,,but also goes out on linked cantilevered assumptions.

[Jack Heinlen]

Oh, everyone's a bit over the top on this one, but I assume they have reason: these technologies are abounding.

Weird fookin ****e. Would you want to be "downloaded"? What if death became a distant memory, for some. How would that alter the human equation? Aren't we over populated now? What happens when people start living a hundred, or 150 years, as is predicted by some geneticists?

Questions. I don't know, I've always thought I had some few years to do what I do, and then that's it. I like that equation, well, try to do my best with it. If the equation had no end, sorta a human factoring of Pi, how would that affect us?

The Financial Times article is honorably non-denominational.

[ahp]

As things are in the USA, there won't be any transhumans here. For better or worse they will happen someplace else, but we will need to negociate with them.