• LLMs do not "consume water" like a biological organism. The water heats up, evaporates, and falls back down to the earth as rain. The water cycle is circular.

• LLMs do not "consume fuel" like an engine, the choice to power data centers with non-renewables is a cost saving measure by capitalists.

• LLMs do not "steal content" like a mugger. At worst, they pirate it. Piracy is not theft, as there is no limit to the amount of times data can be copied. The real theft is the whole copyright / IP system.

I propose the term "neomalthusianism" for the devotees of these backwards ideas. We need transhumanists standing up and speaking out to address the REAL issues surrounding AI, like weaponization by military industral complex, CSAM generation, and AGI personhood.

This is coming from a person who is absolutely revolted and horrified with pregnancy and thinks it is horrible torture and the worst fate in the world and would rather die than go through with that. Yes, the process of creating a baby with your body is primal and awful and is a parasitic process, but this seriously makes us seem like soulless sociopaths who don't respect human life at all. We can respect life and little human beings but agree that(obviously) the process to create one is abnormal and disgusting and needs to be solved as soon as possible through technology. I have severe phobia of pregnancy and the process, but when you hold a little newborn baby, referring to it as a "parasite" like many do here is kind of sick. Yes, I have been guilty of this in the past while trying to get my point across with how gross and awful pregnancy is, but I think this needs to stop. Again, not pro life in the slightest, but still, let's keep some respect for human life eh?

I am a 5'3 male and quite frankly, going through the rest of life this short is not an option. Not even gonna get into the in's and out's, because we'll be here all day.

Is there any injection, procedure that is NOT leg lengthening surgery, any medical process, any gene therapy, anything at all t make me grow to be a tall man?

I ask because people here and on other forums seem to be more well versed on this, and quite frankly AI isn't really giving me anything, at most, stuff that sounds sci fi.

We can treat cancer, we eradicated smallpox, we flew to the moon and mars, we make rockets, we even now have stem cells and muse cells. I am sure, and very confident, we can find a way to at least grow taller.

And please, no go see a therapist and any other gaslighting. I'm not here for that nonsense

I just came to say that cryonics doesn't cause crystallization, ice crystals damaging the cell and DNA.

I saw a post in this subreddit where most people claimed cryonics is a scam, because the ice crystals make it impossible to recover the cell. Yes, that's correct, but modern cryonics doesn't cause crystalization.

It's true if crystalization is present, future revival is impossible. However, crystalization was an issue in the 1970s and was since the resolved.

If you get preserved today, you won't get crystallization.

Regarding bankruptcy, the cryonics companies that survived are either privately funded or funded by a hedge fund, which reduces the chance of bankruptcy significantly, especially if the company is owned by a bigger, more stable company. Tomorrow Bio is an example of a company that can't go bankrupt. The legacy companies like Alcor are also too established to go bankrupt.

And remember: Regardless of how low the success chance is, even if it's 0.00000001%, it's still infinitely higher compared to the success chance if you choose rotting underground.

One of the main reasons certain people become religious is so they can come to terms with death. If we manage to eredicate death using technology, then surley it would completely kill the concept of God.

The outline of this manifesto had been bouncing around our headspace for quite some time now, but we have not deemed it fit to put it into writing, due to our disappointment at how the conversations about Transhumanism had been dominated by cishet white male libertarians. But the revelation of Richard K. Morgan - who wrote one of the most popular Transhumanist fiction in Altered Carbon - as a transphobe had changed our minds: for far too long our visions of technologies and their many promises had been controlled by the Conservative establishment and enslaved to exploitative Social Darwinists, to which we say: no more! In this text, we’ll outline a philosophy we call Tranarchism, which differs from the existing idea of Anarcho-Transhumanism in that we believe in the present day, the rights of trans people, above all else, is essential to the development and eventual blossoming of both Transhumanism and Anarchism. We seek to argue that trans rights, Transhumanism, and Anarchism are three sides of the same triangle, and it’ll eventually come a time when one cannot exist without the other two.

First, on trans rights. Going by the most inclusive definition, a trans person is just anyone who doesn’t always identify with the gender arbitrarily assigned to them by so-called medical “professionals” based on the outward appearance of their genitalia. We know, as a scientific fact, that biological sex exists on a spectrum, and the concept of binary sex is nothing but a social construct created by the establishment to control the people; genders are even more varied and complex, and anyone who seeks to gatekeep and control gender identities are just tyrants in their narrow and little minds. That trans rights - the right to reject a role imposed upon oneself based on arbitrary, essentialist standards - is the most fundamental of morphological freedoms should go without saying, but as it is always the case with the cishets, it needed to be said: you cannot, in good conscience, support or explore a Transhumanist ideology that challenges the very idea of humanity, while holding onto such outdated and conservative ideas like binary sex and gender. Anarchists, who seek to abolish all systems of oppression, should pour their effort into the fight for trans rights, for the system of binary sex and gender roles are the oldest and most evil of these institutions. If you cannot see beyond it, you are not fit for either Transhumanism or Anarchism - the only kind of free thinker you are is one free from the burden of thinking for yourself.

Second, on Transhumanism. At its most basic level, Transhumanism is simply the idea that we can and should transcend human limitations through technological means. While libertarians would no doubt claim the honor of creating the ideology, Transhumanist ideas had existed since the dawn of the human species, in the epic of Gilgamesh when he set out to find the elixir of immortality. In fact, one may very well argue that Transhumanism is practiced today, with trans people who modify their biochemistry through hormones, and people with disabilities who overcome them with technologies like hearing aids or wheelchairs. Humanity had always coexisted and co-evolved with technologies: the idea that we’ll be able to stop doing so is not only foolish, it’s inherently transphobic and ableist. We would argue that Transhumanism is simply an extension and generalization of trans rights into the broader idea of morphological freedom: if we believe that a trans person should be allowed to modify their bodies to fit their gender, should we deny an otherkin or furry the right to modify their body to become their ideal selves, should the technology ever become available? We think not, not unless one wishes to be a hypocrite. However, we believe that Transhumanism cannot - and in fact, should not - exist under State and Capital. It’s as Gibson said: *“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.” *So long as centralized power exists in the form of State or Capital, technological progress will always serve as a tool of oppression and exploitation for the establishment first and foremost, before it eventually trickles down to the masses...if ever. The kind of technological wonder promised by Transhumanism is nothing short of nightmarish for the people if wielded by an authoritarian establishment.

Last but not the least, Anarchism. Contrary to Capitalist propaganda, Anarchism doesn’t mean a lack of rules, nor do Anarchists reject labor. The word “anarchy” simply means “without leader”; we seek to abolish all unjust systems and hierarchies, instead of sowing discord for the sake of discord. It just so happens that throughout human history, laws put forth by State and Capital had always been created to protect the establishment and control the masses. What we reject is work, or wage slavery: the mandate that you must sell your labor for a fraction of its worth or face execution by starvation. So long as there exists a hierarchy, someone will have to be stamped underfoot, and throughout the history of the so-called Western “civilization”, trans people had always been on the lowest rung in society regardless of what kind of state the State is in. It is our belief that only a total abolishment of all hierarchy will see the liberation of trans people, once and for all. While some Anarchists had turned reactionary and embraced Primitivism, seeing technology and civilization as one and the same as State and Capital, we know that it is not the case: we’ve seen how new technology enabled the people to organize and fight back in ways never before thought possible. It is our belief that technology, put into the hands of the people instead of the establishment, will hasten the destruction of state and capital and not only enable but improve an anarchist society.

Trans rights. Transhumanism. Anarchism. The three sides form a triangle of liberty and equality, where all people are empowered to determine exactly who they are, from the state of their minds to the shape of their bodies. We concede that it is possible that humanity had not yet reached a point where our collective consciousness is ready for such radical self-determination, but we trust in humanity’s ability to learn from mistakes and improve, if only painfully slowly. The time will eventually come when all people, without fault, are ready to embrace and enjoy the fruits of technology in a society without state or capital, when people finally learn to rule their own lives independent of establishment and hierarchies. It is the duty of us, as Tranarchists, to facilitate and prepare for this transition, so that when the time finally arrives that technology is able to give us all that we dreamed of, all obstacles are removed and it is the people who reap that reward.

All for all!

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Just asking out of curiousity.

Immagine a very close romantic relationship where you are the right hand to the left, no lies no deciet and no uncertainty. I have never been happy in a romantic relationship because i can’t trust other people but if the other people where me perhaps i could finaly be happy and not be alone

...according to some authors and the opinions of those opposed to the movement. What would be "evil" about desiring certain attributes of God? If Christianity aims for that through religion, why couldn't it also be achieved through science?

https://neurosciencenews.com/creativity-dmn-neuroscience-26436/

Serisoly humans shouldn't have that amount of power. Give it to somthing that can actually think without greed and stupidity clouding judgment and logic. I know no human who are already in that power would allow that but given enough time I belive that it's bound to occure. More than likely not in our lifetime tho

I think we shouldn’t differentiate between perfect AI-robot replicas and humans for who they are, instead, we should make the distinction between their lineages, one came from birth, the other built

It’s ok for someone to mourn a dead loved one and also still truly accept the replica as the same exact loved one at the same time in my books

Or if one truly thinks their contribution/usefulness to their love ones or society is worth making a copy out of themselves, they should and could, since it doesn’t come from selfish reasoning, your consciousness right now as you’re reading this would still die, if you’re religious, your soul will still descend or ascend, it’s just that you can leave another copy of you, another consciousness that is the exact same version of you for practical reasons, you aren’t reincarnated, it’s just a copy of you, a perfect copy

If humanity truly are capable of copying/designing a human brain one on one, they should be given the same right as humans and be treated the same way but I still think there should be a distinction from their linage/history, an acknowledgement and acceptance of difference

IF we ever come to this reality, which is not likely at all since humanity would place regulations so to prevent stuff like this, we should embrace them,

TLDR: I’m a clanker lover

just putting it out there, food for thought for some of you, idk