Today’s world is a toe dipped in the lake of cyberpunk critique.
Transhumanism is, for the most part, still a crackpot fringe theory. Most of us aren’t brainchipped, and there are still recognizable human interactions on the web.
To be fair, I don’t see anyone not even more evil than Epstein over there, ruling the world. And unless you rule the world, the worst of us eventually will. So being VERY transhuman, might actually be the only way to win.
If you’re referring to multilateralism, international law, and rules-based-order, I’d agree. We already had that and it (mostly) worker since the second half of the 20th Century. Although there was still a lot of room for improvement, but now we’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.
But if you mean some well-intentioned do-gooder should conquer everybody and enforce their own standard of decency, then I’d say that’s a slippery slope and self-contradictory. Well-intentioned people don’t conquer the world.
Today’s world is a toe dipped in the lake of cyberpunk critique.
Transhumanism is, for the most part, still a crackpot fringe theory. Most of us aren’t brainchipped, and there are still recognizable human interactions on the web.
To be fair, I don’t see anyone not even more evil than Epstein over there, ruling the world. And unless you rule the world, the worst of us eventually will. So being VERY transhuman, might actually be the only way to win.
If you’re referring to multilateralism, international law, and rules-based-order, I’d agree. We already had that and it (mostly) worker since the second half of the 20th Century. Although there was still a lot of room for improvement, but now we’re throwing the baby out with the bath water.
But if you mean some well-intentioned do-gooder should conquer everybody and enforce their own standard of decency, then I’d say that’s a slippery slope and self-contradictory. Well-intentioned people don’t conquer the world.