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Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

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The Price to Be Paid for Transhumanism

Second wave eugenics, entrance humanism advertise themselves as being liberal. They argue that it's up to the individuals based on this right called morphological freedom to decide for themselves whether or not to upgrade and become post-human. But I think in practice, it would not be liberal at all. And there would be a kind of authoritarianism. It wouldn't be top-down state-sanction, sort of authoritarianism, but it would be an authoritarianism of one's predicament.

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