Nina+Ray's+soapstones

**[|The future of robotics: in a transhuman world, the disabled will be the ones without prosthetic limbs…]**

 * by Mark Honigsbaum**

- How transhumanist developments are becoming more prominent - More people are using things (that are used for illnesses) to improve their natural capabilities - More people have been taking enhancement drugs/deferring to prosthetic limbs - The concept of transhumanism is becoming more prominent in the public eye - People who don't know about transhumanism - People curious about self-enhancement - Someone in a situation similar to Meyer - To provide context to the concept of transhumanism - Bring up the ethical questions that come with it - To provide a (mostly) objective view on the subject - Mark Honigsbaum (author of article) - Bertolt Meyer (personal account) - Nick Bostrom (Head of Future of Humanity Institute) - Various scientist/researchers familiar w/ transhumanism - Impartial, informative, critical
 * Subject:** The debate surrounding transhumanism, including personal accounts by Bertolt Meyer.
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"Encompassing everything from robotic limbs to memory-enhancing neural implants to gene therapies that slow ageing, transhumanism (or posthumanism) concerns the technologies and drugs that are rapidly altering the limits of human performance, as well as notions about what we might look like in the future."

"If every athlete takes a lot of dangerous performance-enhancing drugs, there will still be only one gold medalist."

**[|Transhumanism: The World's Most Dangerous Idea?]**

 * by Nick Bostrom**

- The purpose of the transhumanism movement, and a defense against Fukuyama's attacks - Fukuyama claimed that transhumanism would promote the greatest threat to the welfare of humanity - Those who agree with Fukuyama - Those who have doubts about the purpose of the transhumanism movement - To directly contradict Fukuyama's claims against transhumanism - Nick Bostrom (Head of Future of Humanity Institute) - Biased, calm, defensive
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"Similarly, if some persons were to modify their own biology in a way that alters whatever Fukuyama judges to be their “essence,” would we really want to deprive them of their moral standing and legal rights?"

"There is no reason why humans with altered or augmented capacities should not likewise be equal under the law, nor is there any ground for assuming that the existence of such people must undermine centuries of legal, political, and moral refinement."

**[|Transhumanism: The Most Dangerous Idea?]**

 * by Ronald Bailey**

- Response to Fukuyama's claims - Fukuyama claimed that transhumanism would promote the greatest threat to the welfare of humanity, this is another (different) response for the pro argument - Those who agree with Fukuyama, perhaps Fukuyama himself - To directly contradict Fukuyama's claims against transhumanism - Ronald Bailey (author of article) - Biased, respectful
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"How ironic that Fukuyama now spends his time demonizing transhumanism, a nascent philosophical and political movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative, and idealistic aspirations of humanity."

"I have my own nomination for an "idea [that], if embraced, would pose the greatest threat to the welfare of humanity": Banning technological progress in the name of "humility.""