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I have chosen in the poll UBI but of, course, a changed and sharing economic regime is essential for its proper funding. So I do also want to know about your views re Futurist Economics.

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Apr 5, 2023Edited
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"...alternatively the distinction between machine and organism will dissolve as cyborg trans-humans become normal)."

This is the real danger and I am bothered about the glib acceptance of this possibility.

We have created a new species in nature but we have the strange weakness that we allow our creations to become our masters and oppressors.

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Apr 6, 2023
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Hello Austin,

"...would be us, with laser eyes and clamp hands." An interesting difference.

Would we still be guided by today's [flawed] ethical norms? Could transhumanism become compulsory—improve, or else...?

Olaf Stapledon, I think, wrote dystopian Sci-Fi about a society where perfectly functioning members and organs were amputated and replaced by artificial implants.

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Apr 8, 2023
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Agreed, the future depends on what we do or don't do here and now.