{"id":244025,"date":"2026-09-14T09:02:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/transhumanist-manifestos-and-dilemmas-15-years-later"},"modified":"2026-09-14T09:02:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T14:02:39","slug":"transhumanist-manifestos-and-dilemmas-15-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/transhumanist-manifestos-and-dilemmas-15-years-later","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanist Manifestos and Dilemmas: 15 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fifteen years ago I asked a question. A few months later I decided I had the answer, and that was my mistake.<\/p>\n

The question came from Hamlet: will technology replace biology? It felt like our generation\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Richard Feynman said something about questions and answers that I have not been able to shake. It is in the essay.<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s version of to be or not to be. Death is a tragedy; technology looked like the only exit, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}