[exratione]

It is a strange journey that we'll all be going on, just through the incremental process of desiring and adopting improvements.

https://www.exratione.com/2017/04/blind-upon-the-eve-of-apot...

But really, transhumanism is common sense. You see a problem and you fix it. That inevitably leads to the end of suffering, which requires medical control of aging, complete control of the biosphere, comprehensive neurotechnology, and so forth. The only open question is how long it all takes to run through the development pipeline.

If longevity-assurance technologies existed, everyone would use them as a matter of course, just like people go to the doctor when they are sick, take vitamins, and go for flu shots. We're in a strange part of history at the moment, transitioning from a state of abject technological poverty, unable to affect our environment, to a state of technological wealth in which all of these items - aging, intelligence, the human condition - are becoming malleable. All of the mental and philosophical architecture put in place to enable people not to go mad in the face of death and limitations will come crumbling down, but not without a fight.

Humans are nothing if not conservative at root, and all change is fought. Not an advantage in an age of vastly beneficial change, but it is what it is until the human mind changes.