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The transhumanist imperative to radically reengineer humanity is really at the heart of all of the other claims that TESCREALists make. We’re probably not going to be able to colonize space if we don’t radically reengineer ourselves or upload our minds to computers or just create a new species of AGI to completely replace humanity. Does that make sense?
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
jacobin.com
Before writing, the natural limits on human cognition and memory prevented memeplexes from becoming too elaborate or abstract; after, the sky was the limit—words became the fire-hardened bricks with which we erected ever-higher and more intricate thought structures.
The Great Disembedding
Roger’s Bacon
We must understand the fatalistic submission of the UK’s population to austerity as the consequence of a deliberately cultivated depression.
Good for Nothing - Mark Fisher
libcom.org
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