I have a narrow definition of what it is to be transhuman

I think the only real positive outcome of transhumanism and related ideologies is an outcome where people can choose what they want to be and do.

With that in mind, not everyone is going to want to change the same things about themselves, nor is everyone going to want to change various things to the same extent, and for that matter, many people will likely not change much or even anything.

I'm tired of seeing people trying to push some universal standard that they think everyone should conform to. If there's anything that's good about transhumanism, it's the ability to choose what you want to be, and what you want to do. Personally, I wouldn't want to radically alter my emotions or sense of self, and I'd find something like omnipotence to be much more of a curse than a blessing (being able to learn specific things quickly as an optional sort of thing would be great, but forcibly learning everything? I'll definitely pass on that.)

Any future where everyone is forced to someone else's standard of transhumanism is a dystopia, as far as I'm concerned, especially given that different ideas about transhumanism often entail radically different visions of the future. If some people want to go into VR and live out all of their wildest dreams, they should be able to do that, if some people want to explore the cosmos, they should be able to do that, and if some people just want to continue living on as normal humans in the normal reality, then they should be able to do that too.

The ultimatum here is that nobody's vision of transhumanism should be forced on everyone else, and transhumanism should offer people the personal freedom to do as they'd like, so long as it's not screwing other people over.

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