The last thing most technodipshits need is a computer capable of figuring out what an unfuckable bore you are. if your robot girlfriend is as smart or smarter than the other women you've met, why wouldn't she -also- leave you?
Save the rest of the money you'd spend and the personal relationships you'd destroy, by just going the fuck to therapy, talking your shit out, learning to hold the L and start treating women as people, not your inferiors, and I guarantee you, you'd be happier.
Look if having all the money and power and technology in the world actually fixed the hearts, and cleared the eyes of humans we would be living in a utopia this very second. We are not.
If you think robot legs are fine and then you should upload your consciousness into digital heaven to live forever (which is it's own pot of wholly unexamined -yikes- we're not gettin into right now) but you can't acknowledge that gender is a construct? You yearn for stasis, not progress.
You cannot express limitless human self determination of a transhumanist future, while pretending transgender people do not already exist and seek to bring themselves into alignment externally and internally. The only way the math maths is "John gets to be the coolest boy forever, at gunpoint."
Actually, at some point in the future, I do want to return to that, if that's okay! I guess I just don't really understand what about the consciousness thing is specifically the "yikes" part. It's probably just something I haven't considered yet.
They won't do that because it's all about power through degradation.
If they pay for sex, they are doing business with another person, and implicitly recognising that person has an integrity to consent that they are respecting.
Tech celebrities: "Let's invent things that bypass all these limits of human anatomy!" (Gets mad when people have more imaginative ideas as to how this stuff can be applied than they do)
Their whole mindset feels like it has one foot in the future and one foot in the past. Not avant-garde enough.
It's both feet in the past, with one hand holding firmly onto the authoritarianism granted by "tradition"
They're peeking over the fence of the future, stealing the ideas of those who dream of bettering ourselves, and looking to loot things that help them maintain a power structure.
The whole business makes a lot more sense when you realize the thought leaders of this regressive wave of transhumanist ideology were mostly raised in conservative religious households, decided they were too smart for the religion part and then never examined the other parts of their upbringing
It's why so many cyberpunk settings have this narrative text where "if you do to much body modding you lose your humanity " because they aren't really about removing the limits of the human experience they're morality tales about hedonism or something like it and it makes them boring
Having people without any implants, in the real world, on this website talk about "the journey to merge with divine machine god" has done nothing to dissuade me that cyberpsychosis wouldn't be real lol.
Maybe theres always people that are going to interact with something in a way that's not particularly healthy I guess I just find it odd that a lot of these settings have an undercurrent of saying that physiological limits are what make us human when using tech to get past those limits is very human
Cyberpunk 2077 got better whenever it suggested that “cyberpsychosis” was mostly just a corpo boogeyman to explain away systemic injustice, labor exploitation, and mental and physical illness driving people to violence when cybernetics provided them with a figurative (or sometimes literal) gun
Its always kinda baffling to me because a LOT of the cyberpunk transhumanism media produced prominently feature these subgroups as well as just cis folks who don't care about body parts so I genuinely don't get why suddenly furries/ trans folks are unpopular in these communities
I wanna say in either a show or game (I think cyberpunk 2077 but I can't remember) there's a cis guy that does business as a woman because its more profitable and he straight up doesn't care. Someone asks him about it and he's just like "sex sells" and that's it iirc
"whoah this cyberpunk dystopia filled with suffering and revolutionary symbolism looks really cool and would be my ideal future" - CEO who is already making it a dystopia just without the science fiction technology to make impossibly strong/useful materials and flying cars with no visible propulsion
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Just pay a sex worker.
If they pay for sex, they are doing business with another person, and implicitly recognising that person has an integrity to consent that they are respecting.
And they can't have that.
ehhh
Their whole mindset feels like it has one foot in the future and one foot in the past. Not avant-garde enough.
They're peeking over the fence of the future, stealing the ideas of those who dream of bettering ourselves, and looking to loot things that help them maintain a power structure.
Meanwhile VR chat...