Fifteen years ago I asked a question. A few months later I decided I had the answer, and that was my mistake.

The question came from Hamlet: will technology replace biology? It felt like our generation’s version of to be or not to be. Death is a tragedy; technology looked like the only exit, and yet I suspected the trade might cost us something we could never buy back.

Then I stopped asking and started declaring. I went headfirst into #transhumanism and wrote a manifesto calling on everyone to break the chains of biology and death.

Manifestos are seductive that way. Clean, confident, and they hand you your marching orders. Dilemmas do none of that. They just sit there, unresolved, making you uncomfortable.

Fifteen years later, I know which one I trust, and I know why it matters now more than it did then. We are surrounded by action without introspection. By people ready to build a new world on the ruins of the current one, with #AI as the wrecking ball and the blueprint both.

Richard Feynman said something about questions and answers that I have not been able to shake. It is in the essay.

So let me put the dilemma to you: are you up for revolution or introspection? Do you embrace the paradox, or do you want the clear answer?

Transhumanist Manifestos and Dilemmas: A Decade and a Half of Reflection [ https://snglrty.co/2Wjtxal](https://snglrty.co/2Wjtxal)

15 years since I wrote Hamlet’s Transhumanist Dilemma and a Transhumanist Manifesto. Much has changed, including my perspective.