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Jandila comments on Disability Culture Meets the Transhumanist Condition - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: Rubix 28 October 2011 07:02PM

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Comment author: blogospheroid 29 October 2011 04:27:06AM 3 points [-]

I think that in a world with as many options as the transhumanists think of, some sort of a compulsory rumspringa for every culture/ sub culture might get instituted.

A rumspringa is a brief time where amish young men get to see the world. Similarly, some kind of a rule might be instituted where all young humans are given some time to explore other cultures. But in the case of disabilities, such therapy and re-baselining might take measures that are very expensive from today's perspective.