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Eitan_Zohar comments on Open Thread, May 25 - May 31, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 25 May 2015 11:31:04AM *  1 point [-]

What will people do, when almost everything they currently do is driven by exactly those limits that it is the transhuman vision to eliminate? Think of everything you have done today -- how much of it would a transhuman you in a transhuman world have done?

What I would want to do, or what I think I would do? I certainly would want to hold on my values, but I'm not yet sure which ones.

I don't see how you can just crank these very specialized phenomena several orders of magnitude higher and still remain remotely human. That's the point of the essay- we wind up as something we would view as monstrous today.