This is just egregious.

In real life Batman would be shot by a sniper and killed.

The body is a soft machine. Very different and unlike the hard machines (computers, cars, etc.)

Solutions always lead to new and unforeseen problems.

The real answer is outer space. Preferably a terraformed Mars.

51 years on earth, in which in your twenties and thirties, it became quite clear that the cheerleading of transhumanoids were not only broken records but broken promises and not science, and in which you are now in the midst of incoming global catastrophe in the form of global climate change, and... you want to live…

2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the worst and most boring films I ever had the displeasure of watching. This short animation is infinitely better than the film but a little less absurd.

Your statement is curious. You first correctly identify that the problem is and has been the western economic model, but then you type that you want replicators for everyone. Replicators per star trek cannot exist in the real world without incredible waste. Replicators in the real world are called factories, and we…

Indeed. The western model is not and has never been sustainable. A new approach is necessary.

The west still has not seriously begun to curtail it's predominant credo of catastrophic greed, which was made unambiguous in the 1987 film Wall Street when the fictional character Gordon Gekko uttered "greed is good". The recent unveiling of the redundant products such as the iphone 6 and iwatch is proof that things…

>>This could imply that if the west didn't do it first, someone else would, and we'd still be on the same path anyway. So blaming the west is useless when humanity's own tendencies is the root cause.<<

Actually there is a western/European model. Excessive hydrocarbon use, the need for the production of redundant technologies, a global economy based on damaging resource extraction or incessant consumption. Every country on the face of the planet is attempting to emulate this because human beings tend toward…

The problem is not and has never been population. The problem is resource and territorial allocation. Since the modern western planetary society today is founded on greed, injustice and inequality, the discourse is framed as a population issue in which Africans and other dark skinned people are unsurprisingly in a…

Which is why I am against transhumanism. Transhumanism is accurately described by Professor Dale Carrico as being superlative futurolgy. The grotesque inflation of the very old but still dominant strain of European/western thinking which is to control and dominate the material world. Nothing good can come of it.

"Civilization" as per the European based paradigm the world is under today isn't really that civilized. On that note however, I still don't agree with much of the anarchist remedies to this problem.

With all the brutalities, insanity and injustices stemming from so-called free market capitalism on earth, people are still speaking and thinking in terms of "job growth" and "economic security" and are working and planning to export such absurdities into outer space. Unbelievable.

Indeed. Nature has always been a morbid and macabre unfolding.

>> "adaptations are the result of millions of years of slow, unintelligent, random tinkering."

Inquiring into whether or not humans have conquered the threat of extinction is like inquiring whether or not human beings are biological entities.