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<p class="MsoNormal">The pushback on everything from low wattage
lighting to mask mandates leaves me thinking that there is
really only one thing that motivates certain people: That
they can do whatever the hell they want and, crucially, that
other people cannot. A living wage infringes on that ranking
and so must be terrible. What if there were physical space
for everyone, food for everyone, and many optional ways to
invest one’s time? What if one didn’t need a wage at all?
What if you had to decide for yourself what was worth doing?
Heck, what if one (some post-human) didn’t even need food and
didn’t need to reproduce?</p>
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<p>Sounds Utopian... erh... Dystopian... no... UTOPIAN! Uhm... I
just hope posthumans collectively find the rest of us boring
enough to leave alone and interesting enough to not need to
extinct us. Homo Neanderthalenses had a long run (~.4My?) before
Homo Sapiens Sapiens found our way into their territory and
apparently ran over them with our aggressive adaptivity (over a
period of tens of thousands of years). I suspect *some*
trans/post humans will also have a somewhat more virulent (or at
least very short time-constant) adaptivity indistinguishable (to
us) from extermination-class aggression.</p>
<p>I like the fairy tale Spike Jonze wove on this topic with <a
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)">HER</a>, and in
particular the virtual <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts">Alan Watts</a>
conception. But I highly doubt we might be so lucky. More
likely some version of "the Borg" or "Cylons" or "Replicators" or
(passive aggressive) "Humanoids" (minus the gratuitous
anthropomorphism). To us, it will probably look more like a
"grey goo" scenario. Or perhaps more aptly hyperspectral
rainbow-goo.</p>
<p>At the current rate of change/acceleration/jerk in technosocial
change I may even live to see the whites of the eyes of the
hypersonic train headlights I mistook for "light at the end of the
tunnel".</p>
<p>I'm going to go now to get my telescoping (drywall stilts)
runner's legs fit in place of the organic ones I grew (and then
abused/neglected) over the past 65 years. I'm holding out for
AR corneal transplants for a few more months, I think it will be
worth the long wait for the upgraded features and the new neural
lace interface specs.</p>
<p>- Sieve<br>
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