固定
🆕 New essay by me in Asterisk:
Since the Romantic revolution of the 1790s, one of the most time-tested ways to combat disenchantment has been to assert that humanity is the ultimate purpose of cosmic evolution.
But can evolutionary humanism stand up to the challenge of AI?
Transhumanism was designed to answer a distinctly 20th-century question: how do we improve the human? But today, we’re facing a different question: what are humans even for?
@tobyshorin on what Silicon Valley’s transhumanists and meditators inherited from the German Romantics,