One thing I find amusing is how the great defender of liberal democracy, Fukuyama, called transhumanism 'the world's most dangerous idea' despite the fact that, in its initial conditions at least, transhumanism imported so very heavily from liberal humanism. Given how near total pluralism flows from transhumanism, almost necessarily, it might be the most liberal idea in existence
@JCorvinus rereading his original piece it seems like the basic left critique of capitalism - technology that produces inequality threatens to breed more inequality
@mutual_ayyde There was also an element of 'changing human nature threatens to upend all the work on building stable institutions that have been fine-tuned for human nature,' which is kinda true but it is a pessimistic prediction of how humans will distill and morph their nature going forward
@JCorvinus Transhumanism: what if we took humanism seriously. Of course liberals would be scared of that, that would force them to take liberalism seriously too.