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- Feb 26, 2019
That's like poking your eye out because you want to have better eyesight.
You use this as an example, but the transhumanists say this shit unironically.
I thought it was more like blinding yourself to hear/feel touch better, but y'all are both right.
And while transhumanism weirds me out on a very basic level, fundamentaly I understand the idea, too.
As a kid, I'd got really bored one long weekend (think I was sick, and stuck indoors); so I decided to keep my eyes closed anytime the lights came on, and tried to navigate/do everything by memory or sound, without knocking anything over or running into shit.
I was old enough that I knew blind people were supposed to have better hearing, but I'd never really thought much about it, because the blind had those canes.
But it didn't take long before I started hearing *everything*, and my skin got super sensitive for the slightest brush of a change in air-current or table, as I passed them. At that point it became a game, and I also started listening to whole albums with my eyes closed, and purposely keeping them shut while walking at night because I normally couldn't see shit anyways.
The only appeal transhumanism ever had to me, was the potential for overlaying/augmenting one sense/sensation with another (or even with another person), or voiceless communication; real sci-fi shit.
I mean, why haven't we seen sex-helmets from Demolition Man yet? Or implants that allow someone to feel the coom of their opposite sex?
Dollars to donuts Elon could do it, and/or has those projects on the back burner; it'd negate the need to cockchop oneself, and that'd piss off the troon brigades too hard.