kpreid comments on Open Thread April 8 - April 14 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion
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This is not a Rationality Quote, but it might be about transhumanism if you squint. From a short Iron Man fanfic, Skybreak, cut for relevance:
It fits in a fanfic, but outside that it starts to look like generalizing from fictional evidence. We haven't seen what a supergenius did. We've only seen what a writer thinks a supergenius would do.
True; as evidence, it is fictional evidence.
But it is a depiction of a category of positive outcome which, even if not inevitable, could be aimed for.
It's making the difference between transhumanism and the robot economic takeover.