Someone asked me how come I used to have a strong identity as a singularitarian / transhumanist but don’t have it anymore. Here's what I answered them:

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So I think the short version is something like: transhumanism/singularitarianism used to give me hope about things I felt strongly about. Molecular nanotechnology would bring material abundance, radical life extension would cure aging, AI would solve the rest of our problems. Over time, it started feeling like 1) not much was actually happening with regard to those things, and 2) to the extent that it was, I couldn’t contribute much to them and 3) trying to work on those directly was bad for me, and also 4) I ended up caring less about some of those issues for other reasons and 5) I had other big problems in my life.

So an identity as a transhumanist/singularitarian stopped being [...]

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First published:
February 3rd, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7Lp6CLz93DvmyGmTY/why-i-no-longer-identify-as-transhumanist

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“Why I no longer identify as transhumanist” by Kaj_Sotala

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“Why I no longer identify as transhumanist” by Kaj_Sotala