Think about it, normies and popular and successful because of their looks and personality but in a biomod or cybernetic era, those can be easy to change.
Are you horrible deformed? No problem, just get a new clone body!
Is your dick too small? Just get a new one
Are you an ugly shit? Just get a new face
Have mental problems? Just put this chip in your brain
Not only that but we will become immortal through technological means, thus making the need to reproduce be completely gone and we can deprogram our desire to reproduce or want to have kids, creating A. a population of people who fuck like mad and B. a population of asexuals with no desire for companionship.
And yes while the augs may be overpriced at first, the free market will drive the prices down by a fair margin, though this will probably take a lot of waiting (I'm gonna guess augs will be cheap by 2120).
So everybody will either be really good looking and everybody will be fucking everybody with no caring for monogamy and stuff because there is no longer a need to or be wizard monks who simply don't need companionship, an ideal for robots considering they both remove >tfw no gf.
Plus if all else fails, you will always have virtual reality, sexbots, and android AI waifus.
>inb4 feminists wanting to ban them
Don't worry, you can just make a male equivalent and say it's empowering. Plus it has been shown that new technology always outdates old morals (examples being the pill and abortions).
>>29378420
>implying we won't all die because of climate change and pollution before that happens
Wew lad
>>29378420
>Free market
>monogamy
>future
Uh, never been to america have you?
>>29378502
>hurrr climate change I'll believe anything
>>29378502
>implying geoengineering doesn't exist
>>29378569
>mfw I'm typing this and original post from Austin, Texas
FeelsDelusionalMan
>>29378420
>Have mental problems? Just put this chip in your brain
But then, in a sense, are you not killing your self, if you define yourself as the processes your brain takes? To put a chip in your brain to so drastically change your thoughts and behavior is paramount to just killing yourself and replacing yourself with a similar face.
Acceptance of your self, without any artificial enhancers, is possibly the first great step on the way to happiness. It's a problem druggies, womanizers, sluts, and many others have spent their entire lives running away from, but to accept yourself is to find true happiness with all your faults and shortcomings.
>>29378798
But we are constantly changing, despite the fact we are always "ourselves". Why not make that change easier with the help of a computer aid?
But none of this shit will even happen in our lifetime.
So why do we care?
>tfw stuck in a gray area in the timeline of technological advancement
>>29378798
>But then, in a sense, are you not killing your self, if you define yourself as the processes your brain takes? To put a chip in your brain to so drastically change your thoughts and behavior is paramount to just killing yourself and replacing yourself with a similar face.
Well it greatly depends on your personal philosophy, if you're more utilitarian and believe there is no such thing as the self, then you won't be killing yourself and replacing, if you're kantian and believe there is a self, you would be correct.
Acceptance of your self, without any artificial enhancers, is possibly the first great step on the way to happiness. It's a problem druggies, womanizers, sluts, and many others have spent their entire lives running away from, but to accept yourself is to find true happiness with all your faults and shortcomings.
Those people weren't able to run away from themselves or change it because there is no way to do so, in my hypothetical future, there is, thus your argument is invalid.
>>29378960
If we're lucky we -might- make it into the first inmortal generation
>>29378960
Some of this shit will though.More advanced virtual reality (though not quite matrix 100% accurate to life yet), clone bodies, replacing body parts with mechanical ones, and brain chips are a few examples.
>tfw you will witness the technological dawn of humanity
feelsgoodman
>>29378740
Sounds delusional. So you believe we'll develop a free market mentality/ climate that allows it to function here in the states at some point? And you think monogamy will stop its' deathspiral and make a comeback?
it's all just a scam to convince you to let them track you and sell your data. Microsoft bought LinkedIn for 26 billion dollars. Now unless they're selling you these chips for more than your decade salary, why would they give you just a standard cybernetic without adding in any of their bullshit if they can get away with it? Think how much money it would be worth.
>>29379049
that's what they all think. 68 year old Kurzweil still thinks he'll just about make it. The big name middle aged tech startup men give you a year somewhere around 2050. They've all just convinced themselves that immortality is guaranteed to be achievable by the end of their remaining life expectancy, in reality we're probably centuries away
>>29379265
Did you even read my post, I said that the augments and such will remove the needs for monogamy and everyone will be good looking thus everybody will fuck everybody and nobody will be left out or people will become asexual monk types. Once the US economy collapses, everyone will either go full on free market or go commiecrazy.
>>29378420
Life isn't a video game anon, you will never live long enough to even see 1/10th of what you're talking about.
In the setting guide for Eclipse Phase, a compelling argument is made that the technology for self enhancement actually makes the gap between rich and poor even worse. The richer someone is, the better enhancements they can afford for body and mind. They'll be the best looking, the smartest, and the most socially capable. Naturally these improvements lead to even better earning potential and social success. Those without money will be competing against people that are not even in the same league as them.
>>29379432
Yes but I'll clutch that 1/20th I'll get with an iron grip. Also the never live long enough argument relies on the fact that you'll have a normal 80 year lifespan when it'll probably be 140 through technology.
>>29379462
Yes but soon the poor would inevitably either get killed off due to being useless and most of their jobs being automated or be able to afford a few shitty augments and make their own sect because "muh trickle down" meme.
>>29379432
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/06/17/the-amazing-artificial-intelligence-we-were-promised-is-coming-finally/
>There have been more advances in AI over the past three years than there were in the previous three decades.
>>29378420
Technology does not work as well as we would like it to.
Enjoy having your brain get corrupted in the transfer to a new body.
>>29379859
Fair nuff, but tech gets less glitchy as time passes due to constant improvement.
