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Implying that new technology generally comes without risk or sideeffects is typical for transhumanist writting but it's also badly wrong. Most new technology has risk or sideeffects at the time it get's adopted.
I didn't say
baseless assertionbutbaseless speculationgiven that you don't seem to have covered the basic research of looking into the issues surrounded the existing technology, your speculation about future technology is per definitionbaseless.Who the heck said we were talking about "the time it gets adopted"?
This is a forum where people regularly talk about terraforming mars and building dyson spheres even if they have little knowledge about the subject and I'm not allowed to speculate about cosmetic bodily upgrades?
Should we develop technology X?has a lot to do with:What do we expect the likely effects of the adoption of technology X happen to be?. Thinking that the two questions have nothing to do with each other is highly problematic.I don't think that the discussions about terraforming Mars on LW are done by people who haven't thought about the existent technical options for terraforming Mars.
The problem is not that you speculate but that you ignore what we know as a society about the various interventions for the problem while you speculate.
I acknowledge they exist. I also acknowledge they aren't all that good.
You don't say what you mean with
they.They fit the criteria you stated in the opening post. Engaging with reality would help formulatting better criteria.
Saying the gym isn't good because you can't teach everyone calculus is not engaging with the issues of the gym.
You ever hear of the "illusion of transparency"? Because you seem really overconfident in your ability to interpret other people's writing.
If I say: "You don't say what you mean with
they" then there nothing overconfident about that statement. It simply shows that I know of multiple possible interpretations, while you might or might not be conscious of them. If you are you could specify your argument.Scientific thinking is to seek for disconfirmation of claims. The fact that vague claims can be read in a way that's not disconfirmation doesn't mean that it's good to read them that way. Being to vague to be wrong is bad.