Conceptually? I’m all for it. Why wouldn’t I be.
In practice, we live in a capitalist society and I don’t want an arm that makes me watch an advertisement before I open a bag of chips.
All right, you get the chip opening for free, but masturbation requires a paid subscription
And practice on a hotdog first or you’ll tear it right off/start a bushfire.
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Wow, I literally have nothing to add to that. Well done.
Too real man
Not against it on principle, but there’s no way I’d get it knowing about the way the corporations that have the resources to make it happen operate.
There are a lot of different human faculties that can be augmented!
We augment our senses every day with tools like microphones, microscopes, radio, radar, telescopes, X-rays, cameras, etc.
And when our senses fail us, we augment them with eyeglasses, hearing aids, and so on.
We augment our legs with bicycles, skateboards, cars, airplanes, etc.
And when our legs fail us, we augment them with braces, crutches, wheelchairs, electric scooters, walkers, etc.
We augment our memory retrieval with writing, library science, search engines, and regular expressions.
We augment our ability to measure lengths with rulers, measuring-tapes, and surveying equipment.
We augment our immune systems with masks, rubber gloves, antiseptics, antibiotics, cancer therapies, water treatment, etc.
We augment our sexual functions with erotic stories and art, contraceptives, lubricants, sex toys, dating apps, etc.
We augment our metabolic function with cooking, fermentation, agriculture, selective breeding of crop species, etc.
We augment our musical abilities with horns, percussion, strings, synthesizers, and more.
It turns out that augmenting human ability is itself a core human ability.
I see, nature made us to be cyborgs
Many of us are already cyborgs. I have a continuous glocuse monitoring system and an insulin pump, I choose to believe this will give me dual citizenship if there is a robot apocalypse.
Smart! snorts line of pixy stix
We call it “tool use” and “medicine” and “literacy” and “science” and “accessibility” and “culture”
Wearable > implantation
Just a security concern. Augmenting is great but we don’t want the augmentations to become a liability. Obviously there are exceptions to every rule, if we invent a robotic arm replacement for someone who’s lost one, the security concerns are generally lower than the quality of life improvement of having a functioning arm 99% of the time, and there’s an argument for the potential ability for rapid detachment in case of emergency, but once we get into subdermal and brain implants, we’re in a territory where these things can’t be easily removed in case of emergency, and the risks get immense.
I know too many devs to have my body require a firmware update.
There are folks who are facing their hardware provider going out of business and just hoping their eyes don’t quit working.
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The flesh is weak. Only the machine is eternal.
There is no certainty in flesh except death.
Its a good thing? Prosthetics really help disabled people.
Whatever improves your quality of life I’m all for.
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From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel; I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day, that crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved.
For the machine is immortal.
Even in death I serve the Omnissiah
I am not looking forward to having my eyes scooped out for a second time because the company providing bionic vision went out of business.
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I really want the magic ring so I can badge in and out of the office
On a post talking about modifying the body, you say you want a magic ring? Do I dare open the link? :o
haha its an actual ring, but the site is mostly things like magnets you can stab into your finger and things like that, nothing graphic on the site from what Ive seen
I can’t imagine a faster way to dystopia. You’d be literally incapable of disobedience.
Depends on the implant. I have to imagine the only way this kind of thing could be adopted mainstream is for it to be open source, the risks are just too high to let some random company put obfuscated proprietary tech in your brain
This sparks joy: Augmentation to help people become the selves that they would truly like to be.
This does not: Some kind of transhuman singularity dystopia where we have replaced ourselves not out of a soul-driven yearning for our true self, but in service of a cold, quantitative utilitarian calculus that says we must shed our skin because it is logically inferior.
Both. Everyone is afraid of AI taking over but it’s just a tool. Human augmentation is way more likely to lead there. But in the mean time, Stephen Hawking lived quite a while only being able to speak with augmentations. Just like any other technology, it will be at the very least researched in fear that someone else will first. So might as well embrace it
I’m not afraid of AI taking over. I’m afraid of the TESCREAL suicide cult that wants AI to take over. If they are the ones who ultimately push a singularity button, because they believe it’s a moral imperative to push the singularity button, we’re going to have a really shitty rapture.
