On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 2:40 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... > Maybe you can explain the conflict between humanity and transhumanity. > It goes back to the CHLCA according to E O Wilson's "The Social Conquest of Earth" -- and it is more accurately characterizd as a conflict between transhumanity and the biosphere or, to be more specific, between sexuality and what one might call "trans-sexuality", which I call sexual perversion. So sexual perversion of the primate line started with CHLCA in the form of nascent eusociality. See "Brave New World" if you want an amazingly prescient fictional portrayal of what I referred to as "y'all <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)>." Now don't take the word "perversion" as an insult since some of the most vital aspects of the biosphere are sexually perverted such as the eusocial insects which are vital to the biosphere. As Wilson described in TSCOE, the form transhumanity takes is incredibly dangerous to all life because humanity is the most extreme "generalist species" yet encountered. Imaginary such species are of course the infamous "paperclip maximizers", although a much more benign form would be what O'Neill implied in "asking the right question" of his most gifted physics students: "Is the surface of a planet really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" That is why I was O'Neill's local support team leader in Miami when Bezos gave his valedictorian speech -- although Bezos hasn't yet quite gotten the Earth telos right. Sadly, NASA lied about the $/mass to LEO and did incredible amounts of damage that I attempted to remediate 10 years later at untold personal sacrifice only to learn That Unspeakable Thing In DC is the primary enemy of life due to the WRC trickledown through the institutions. It looks to me like transhumanity is winning for the simple reason that the > cost of medical care is doubling every 9 years while the cost of technology > is halving every 3 years. > The conflict isn't about transhumanity losing. Why do you think I was ahead of ya'll by DECADES in trying to give ya'll options that, were you sane, you'd have jumped on with all 4s and run with? ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tc2616dc0a8577813-Md90c28b39dfd65f315ffd6d8 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
