I’m no fan of Harari either. To me, he’s not transhumanist so much as anti-humanist.
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That’s the same thing Jimbo. Same exact thing. Don’t go fully Tranny, never go full tranny.
CBDC could also be a form of transhumanism if you want to go wider.
Be better. You are forgiven so far.
Harari’s view, IIRC, is couched in a scarcity frame. Something like: resources are finite, therefore humanity must be downsized to fit. Then, motivated by this morality, he advocates technological means of carrying it out. Technological means of limitation, control, and in a word, death.
My moral view and baseline assumptions are opposite. Resources are incomprehensibly vast. We’ve only scratched the surface of what this world can provide, let alone the rest of the solar system. We should be doing all we can to increase the number of people and increase their quality of life. History shows that capitalism (private property, consensual exchange) is the engine which brings this about.
Technology is the natural extension of our biological bodies into the environment. We invent and use tools to become more than we were. Whether those tools pierce the body envelope, and whether they are merely rehabilitative vs cosmetic vs enhancements isn’t a crucial moral issue (to me).
The moral issue is whether such technologies are chosen. That is, that participants self-select by informed consent. Coercion and scarcity are the enemies, not technology.