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Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit... by herculity275 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:08AM (#50366638)
Musk has recently shifted to openly advocating for full-speed accelarationism, claiming that being a "biological bootloader for AGI" is a success condition for humanity. He's pretty clearly not concerned with preserving anything about the current state of the world.
Re:Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off wit... by hardbass on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:22PM (#50370304)
Not against that concept in theory if it managed to be executed properly. Gene editing and centaurism always seemed natural next steps to me. I am willing to treat the viewpoint of some people wishing to slowing down or temporarily stopping such work in the sense that we must do a broader work of psychological/brain engineering to get people used to comfort and stop creating devils in their head when they are comfortable, otherwise I don't have any issues with transhumanism itself.