<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 5:25 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">" next few centuries of transhumanism,"<br>
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I doubt this.  Whatever the fate of humanity is, it will go to<br>
completion within decades, not centuries.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The fate of humanity will not go to completion for billions of years.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Keith<br>
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On Sun, Dec 3, 2023 at 1:43 AM Kelly Anderson via extropy-chat<br>
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> I doubt this is a novel train of thought... but...<br>
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> One of the more interesting ways that transhumanism could be "bad" is<br>
> the idea that over the next few centuries of transhumanism, different<br>
> "species" of human could rapidly evolve (though not through natural<br>
> selection, unnaturally) into islands of trans-humans that can no<br>
> longer interbreed. By creating this rapidly dividing delta in the<br>
> river of hominid divergence, it could create interesting dynamics of<br>
> "us" and "them" which could lead to a destructive fragmentation of<br>
> society.<br>
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> I welcome science fiction along these lines...<br>
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> -Kelly<br>
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