A few quick notes...It feels like drinking out of a firehose keeping up with AI evolution and the quest for AGI/sentience:. The fatigue is real.
Debates over AI sentience and general intelligence are distracting us from a far more urgent risk: transhuman enhancement is quietly creating permanent biological inequality, turning money and power into irreversible genetic and physiological advantage that will split humanity into a superior enhanced class and a permanent unenhanced underclass.
The U.S. military’s new testosterone screening program exemplifies exactly how this danger unfolds—deliberately erasing the critical line between therapy (curing disease) and enhancement (surpassing normal human limits), redefining natural age-related decline as a defect requiring treatment, and masking coercion as voluntary choice, so that enhanced service members will eventually re-enter civilian life with permanent advantages that will be bought and sold, creating a biological caste system no amount of policy or wealth redistribution can ever fix.
A few quick notes...It feels like drinking out of a firehose keeping up with AI evolution and the quest for AGI/sentience:. The fatigue is real.
Debates over AI sentience and general intelligence are distracting us from a far more urgent risk: transhuman enhancement is quietly creating permanent biological inequality, turning money and power into irreversible genetic and physiological advantage that will split humanity into a superior enhanced class and a permanent unenhanced underclass.
The U.S. military’s new testosterone screening program exemplifies exactly how this danger unfolds—deliberately erasing the critical line between therapy (curing disease) and enhancement (surpassing normal human limits), redefining natural age-related decline as a defect requiring treatment, and masking coercion as voluntary choice, so that enhanced service members will eventually re-enter civilian life with permanent advantages that will be bought and sold, creating a biological caste system no amount of policy or wealth redistribution can ever fix.