The rephrasing of “reaching the upper bounds of the human condition” to “try to be the best possible person you can be” robs significant meaning from the statement, related to directional focus
Make that substitution then (as far as I can tell, what you mean by your phrase is identical to what I meant by mine).
I’m sure. But I also wanted to do more than merely provide the definition; I wanted to give practical examples and encourage the discussion of other practical skills or “tools”. Which is why I discussed examples of such skills and their potential benefits.
I think this post could do with some editing to make this clear, and “encouraging discussion” on several different specific skills and tools with a long monolithic post is unlikely to work very well. A smaller discussion post with something like (for example) “I know we know that SRS seems to work, but does anyone know anything about these other mnemotechnic techniques? ” might work better.
(I probably haven’t conveyed this very well, but I don’t dislike most of your post (I quite like the word “acrohumanism”, for example))
Make that substitution then (as far as I can tell, what you mean by your phrase is identical to what I meant by mine).
Yeah, that’s going to be something of a problem. I’m not sure how to properly emphasize the notion of the focus on not only being the best you can be but improving the range of the “bestness” that you can have to the upper limits of what is humanly possible.
If it helps any, a different perspective would be to consider this a “pure software” approach to transhumanism.
(I probably haven’t conveyed this very well, but I don’t dislike most of your post (I quite like the word “acrohumanism”, for example))
I can hardly fault someone else for poorly conveying themselves when that’s the majority of what got me in ‘trouble’ with this post in the first place. Thank you for the affirmation of the term, at least! :)
Make that substitution then (as far as I can tell, what you mean by your phrase is identical to what I meant by mine).
I think this post could do with some editing to make this clear, and “encouraging discussion” on several different specific skills and tools with a long monolithic post is unlikely to work very well. A smaller discussion post with something like (for example) “I know we know that SRS seems to work, but does anyone know anything about these other mnemotechnic techniques? ” might work better.
(I probably haven’t conveyed this very well, but I don’t dislike most of your post (I quite like the word “acrohumanism”, for example))
Yeah, that’s going to be something of a problem. I’m not sure how to properly emphasize the notion of the focus on not only being the best you can be but improving the range of the “bestness” that you can have to the upper limits of what is humanly possible.
If it helps any, a different perspective would be to consider this a “pure software” approach to transhumanism.
I can hardly fault someone else for poorly conveying themselves when that’s the majority of what got me in ‘trouble’ with this post in the first place. Thank you for the affirmation of the term, at least! :)