Are woke ppl so miserable bcuz they are woke or are they woke because they are miserable?

It is remarkable they can be so miserable anywhere, first world country or in paradise jungle beach

Is the whole wokeness movement just a pass for them to impose their misery onto others?

There is no amount of changes that bitcoin can do that will make Lightning scale to visa level payments.

Lightning is cool, kinda works now, I use it all the time. But doesn't scale. Maybe it's how we clear ecash.

We need something else.

Eye on the prize.

Let’s take the example of brain chips. By this I presume you mean neural implants that either communicate with the outside world, or enhance cognition in some way. (If you mean something else, correct me as it’s not my intent to straw man).

Glasses or contact lenses are external aids that enhance perception. Hearing aids are even better examples because they have an internal/surgical component.

We don’t think of these things as transhumanist, but I suspect that’s because they’ve existed for a long time (familiarity) and they’re considered assistive rather than excessive. That is, they bring the user up to par, rather than putting them ahead.

There are technologies to increase kinds of cognition. Calculators aid in arithmetic. A person with a calculator far outperforms a person without. But we don’t think of this as transhumanist because the device resides outside of the body envelope.

My position is that the body envelope is not the special case people seem to think it is. As soon as the enhancement in question is to alleviate a disability or illness, we’re OK with considering internal remedies. We’re even OK considering internal remedies for cosmetic effect (breast augmentation, liposuction, etc.)

It seems odd to me that people are OK with cognitive enhancements that are technological and external (calculators), pharmaceutical and internal (caffeine), but not technological and internal (brain chips).

Note: I’m not saying I personally would volunteer for a brain chip. Just that I have no problem with other people doing so with informed consent. To me it’s not categorically different from other internal/external cognitive/adaptive/cosmetic interventions.

GM

What does it mean??

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It’s possible that I don’t understand what people mean by “transhumanism”. Often people attach different meanings to words.

I tend to think people mean the act of augmenting the body by technological means. Does it mean something else?

Unpopular opinion: overcoming our biological limitations is a distinguishing feature of humanity. Ever since our hominid ancestors first carved hand axes, tamed fire, and worn animal skins, we have been transforming our natural environment and ourselves in a virtuous cycle of improvement.

Transhumanism is humanism.

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Gm Fam.

Good morning ✌️🧡

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So far (ch 5) it's all Hayek and no Rothbard, though... 🧐