I wanted to come back to this because it's worth emphasizing transhumanism has value precisely cuz it constitutes a middle path between stasis and a cancerous will-to-power posthumanism.

Yes, humans are always in transition, but that can be a collaborative wild exploration.

No, mild body modifications aren't that sharp of a deviation, but look at how flustered it makes reactionaries. This is part of why they're worth pressing. Reactionaries hate complexity / diversity, much less femme coding or collaboration & can only accept Cthulhu power-fantasy.

It's worth really drilling down into the word "superior" in Roko's freakout. What reactionaries find comforting about a singular superintelligence is the notion of a single objective linear path of optimization. The branching, exploring collaborative growth of hives? Horrifying.