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    6 months ago

    Human extinction is a preferable alternative to transhumanism. The only future that lies down that road is an exponentially deepening divide between the haves and have-nots, in which a slave class with mandatory compliance-enforcement augments is ruled like livestock by a class of sadistic, hyper-wealthy elites who enjoy life-extending luxury cybernetics in a horrific parody of the Morlocks and Eloi. The potential for debasement of the poor and unfortunate will skyrocket and it will not go untapped. Humanity will not exist forever and we do not have the right to prolong that inevitability by creating abominations.










  • Fine, but I wasn’t addressing what you refuted. Most likely the perpetual-war economies of the Axis would have turned on each other during the course of competitive colonization, and lead to a series of Balkanized fascist states fighting for control. I doubt that even Germany would have remained intact, or that non-Prussian Germans would have had civil rights even by Nazi standards. The various rogue states controlling the general area of Vichy France would undoubtedly still speak French. I was addressing your thesis:

    It’s not clear to me that the Allies lose, even if it’s just the UK and USSR as the major powers.

    If it’s just the UK and USSR as the major powers, they lose.