/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12611438
>MAKE. SURE. YOUR. SOP. IS. CONSISTENT. WITH. YOUR. REC. LETTERS.
I made the mistake of hesitating too long on where to send applications, contacting my PIs later than I should have, and only then writing a SOP so I couldn't tell them what to put into their letters. All my apps went in a day before the deadline.
That's another thing I wish I'd known, admission committees are basically gathering a few months in advance to scan early applicants and in many cases you can actually get in ahead of the crowd if you just apply early enough. But I was hoping for another side project as late as September so this didn't really apply to my situation anyways.
Still got interviews, and we'll see how those go.

>>12567900
>You could only deal the species some unfathomable injury, in the attempt.
No, this is what you are doing with your mad ambition. Solving problems and increasing opportunities is a means, not an end in itself, and this type of fixation on that process, or immortality, or transcendence, arises from literal classical hubris. The species is not being dealt "some unfathomable injury" by the refusal to mutilate itself in the name of a hypothetical utopia, which is neither necessary nor likely to come about.
I'm not claiming that it is impossible or really even infeasible. It's that transhumanists are, as a rule, neurotic existentialists who think technology is really heccin cool and then cope with their metaphysical insecurity by chasing that goal. But quite simply, there is absolutely no reason to do so, on those same grounds. Chasing hedonism is much easier and faster.
If anything the natural endpoint of transhumanism is a bunch of ex-human programs experiencing a constant digital orgy of pure pleasure at the expense of any other aspect of humanity, forever, because everything else is redundant from such a perspective.