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Transhumanism as a "nonissue"

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Vladimir Nesov on Facebook:

Atheism (not believing in fairies) and transhumanism (not believing that you should do what's bad for you) are good sense about how to live our lives in general, part of what you aptly termed rationality+

Vladimir introduces a different way of thinking about h+: rather than as an addition, a cherry on top of human life, we should think of it as the absence of a specific set of mental disorders that cause people to strive for things that are ultimately bad for them.

For example, many people are extremely resistant to the idea of rejuvinative medicine and an end to involuntary death and suffering. They argue against rejuvinative medicine, but, as a matter of fact, when they get old and their partner dies after a long battle with dementia, their tears tell the truth more aptly than any ethical argument.
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  1. Transhuman
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