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Stepping away from Trek's humanistic Utopian vision for a second, real-life trans-humanism has failed to grapple with the fact that valuation itself is an object to be manipulated, which means that in real life you're more likely to get people who, assuming neural hacking exists in a version of our capitalist society, just boost their serotonin levels and eradicate anxiety reactions or feeling sad than any other more external-focused (and probably more expensive) adjustments.
What real-life trans-humanism has failed to grapple with is that humanity doesn't