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[sp]because you're using the internet[/sp]
Interesting video, before I only thought of trans-humanism in the deus ex way. That way is still cool, but the transition between that and what we have now is going to happen very fast.
I especially liked the guy with augmented vision. "I dont like that billboard computer, replace it with my email. A Nigerian price wants to give me a billion dollars? Computer, launch the warheads, set target for Nigeria"
I just did.
She seems kind of dumb, to be honest.
It doesn't seem like she has any intimate knowledge of history, anthropology, or technology and engineering.
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She's also a fucking Apple fangirl.
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And not everybody throws out their clothes each season because the fucking fashion industry had another stroke. In fact the vast majority of people don't, because that's a stupid and inefficient way to live only available to privileged cunts.
A very broad definition of the term cyborg and it puts everything in a different perspective except not really.
Hurr, I use tools instead of bashing things with my face, I have augmented myself.
Who the hell can't pronounce "Trilobite"?
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Also drawing a connection between creatures with exoskeletons shedding their shells in order to grow and us tossing out old electronics is fucking stupid.
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[QUOTE=Devodiere;30023005]A very broad definition of the term cyborg and it puts everything in a different perspective except not really.
Hurr, I use tools instead of bashing things with my face, I have augmented myself.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it's a pretty foot loose and fancy free definition of augmentation.
By that definition sidewalks augment our ability to walk.
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really
really
"Trilobites shed their exoskeletons, we shed our machines. Trilobites went extinct, therefor we might go extinct!"
What fucking horse shit is this?
Don't hurt yourself now Mr. winxp. It's just providing an alternate way of thinking about how humans use tools and that use of cybernetics isn't as far of a jump from where we are now as someone might think.
lol someone used a mac in a video call the fanboy police
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an interesting thought is at the rate humans are evolving compared to our technology is, will we craft machines capable of completely replacing us before the human body can keep up (in evolution and cybernetics)? probably. if humans craft machines that are actually able to do human stuff better than humans, why is the species needed? its not, but most people usually react to that as if its necessarily a bad thing that humans could possibly be obsoleted. If we think about evolution, if a species evolves its no longer that previous species right? that species might extinct, but it left behind something better, something more advanced. there is then little difference between a human having a child better than the parent and the human race managing to develop a "race" of machines better than us.
However, the actual feasibility of developing a race of machines able to actually replace us anytime soon is questionable at best. its probable that evolution wont be able to keep up with our rate of tech development considering how mindfuckingly slow evolution is. im just theorizing on what would happen if we actually managed it, and criticizing the common thought that something like that would be a negative event in our history.
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an interesting thought is at the rate humans are evolving compared to our technology is, will we craft machines capable of completely replacing us before the human body can keep up (in evolution and cybernetics)? probably. if humans craft machines that are actually able to do human stuff better than humans, why is the species needed? its not, but most people usually react to that as if its necessarily a bad thing that humans could possibly be obsoleted. If we think about evolution, if a species evolves its no longer that previous species right? that species might extinct, but it left behind something better, something more advanced. there is then little difference between a human having a child better than the parent and the human race managing to develop a "race" of machines better than us.
However, the actual feasibility of developing a race of machines able to actually replace us anytime soon is questionable at best. its probable that evolution wont be able to keep up with our rate of tech development considering how mindfuckingly slow evolution is. im just theorizing on what would happen if we actually managed it, and criticizing the common thought that something like that would be a negative event in our history.[/QUOTE]
I agree, we honestly shouldn't to be quick to disagree with the whole idea of augmentation and prosthetic culture; She did make a good argument on how tools are a low-tech form of augmentation . However, I will have to agree that speaker was really simplifying the subject matter, and trying a bit too hard with her jokes
OP is quite clever.
By disagreeing with disagreeing, you are agreeing.
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