/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12521006
Someday transhuman will make 99.99% of the population.
The rest will be retarded luddite we graciously keep alive in artificial reserve.

>>12506225
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>>12341261
>Can't say the same to someone who relies on it for their survival
Lets take a step back. If your goal is survival and being fully independent from human society then posthumanism is your best bet. With a Molecular Assembler and a Solar Plate you would be able to exist for a billion without the need of others.
But this is the distant future. A transhuman commune whose members have been genetically engineered, nanotechnologically enhanced and got cybernetic augs will have a easier time to deal with the ravages of life. They could live far freer from megacorps and goverments than any baselines. Such a transhuman commune would be far more adapted to space thus one should expect the first space nations to be popualted by such transhumans. Even on earth a transhuman commune could settle in regions deadly to humans and built their own societies. From arctic habitats, to underwater habitats or desert habitats, transhuman will have an advantage over baselines. All you really need for a transhuman soceity is either a bioprinter, a molecular assember, a potent energy source (solar, fusion) and material. These independent transhumans commune may not have access to the best and most potent transhuman augs but they live free from goverment or megacorp. If that`s what you want.

>>12146879
>But these designer babies are selected to be especially complacent and obedient humans.
Not really, the medical industry outpaces all shady goverment desires in this regards by magnitudes. Such thing might be attempted in China but with such procedure they would shoot themselves into foot in regards to the international competition.
>They will monitor your every single movement and neural activity.
Nanosymbionts are wet nanomachines, they are biologically based. There are simpler ways to do check upon you.
>Used to identify faces and for pre-crime investigations in a totalitarian surveillance state.
You don`t need sapient AI for that. More sinister would be application of AI to develop memetic theory and shape society to your liking. Sociology as a hard science. But with that you could also develop methods to defend yourself against propaganda.
>But it's all controlled by three corporations that together have formed a syndicate and literally exterminate any possible competition.
Space is big. It is indeed very likely that space will be dominated by Zaibtsus. But each of them will be in competition with the other one of different national origin. China vs US vs Europe vs Russia vs Japan. And inbetween the gaps you will see a lot of crazy stuff, posthuman enclaves, asteroid mining colonies and cities of immortals.

>>11907153
>depending on natural procreation
>not mastering genetic engineering, cybernetics and nano enhancements to be a person that could thrive on all worlds.
>dying because of a few hours of vaccum exposure
>getting cancer from a bit of radiation
Dirtdwellers truly are backwards animals. Your filthy kind truly deserves one another.