Is anyone else afraid of the potential of singularity and transhumanism?

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My friends think I’m crazy but this stuff has been keeping me up at night. I’m stressing about it because it threatens life as we know it. I get that Transhumanists fear death and wanna live forever and end suffering, but in my opinion suffering is part of what makes us human. Life isn’t perfect and I’m ok with that. People aren’t perfect and I’m ok with that. I’d rather us just accept and appreciate our imperfections and differences rather than try to genetically engineer and augment everyone to be perfect. It’d be boring as fuck if we all looked the same and it doesn’t stop there. If all of our thoughts are uploaded to computers, we’d have no privacy and individuality anymore. We’d be part of the internet fully and become one big hive mind. People with power can alter us so we all think the same too. Robots would do all the work so we’d be even lazier than we are now. I wouldn’t want my brain chipped so I can know everything and read minds. Call me crazy but I enjoy being human, the highs and the lows. I like approaching girls not knowing whether they’ll say yes or no, but I’m sure dating will be ruined because we’ll just put engineered embryos into artificial wounds to make new humans if we want. Any advice on how I can get over this fear. I honestly think my best bet is to pray I’m dead before this becomes reality and to enjoy every day right now like it’s my last of truly being able to enjoy the current experience of unpredictability and diversity and being human.



Submitted February 27, 2020 at 02:10AM by theeyes83 https://ift.tt/3a9ZIza

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