Yep...

She*, I'm a trans girl

That's a good point, the exact same people are paying before and after, they're just gonna be able to enjoy their city more

Cars sure are cool, but forcing people to be dependent on cars for travel like most of the US? Absolutely not cool.

Yeah, it’s extremely US-centric and acts like we haven’t had solutions for these things in other places

Orion’s Arm is the absolute perfect singularity IMO, e.g realistic methods for body switching, humans actually becoming as intelligent as AI singularities, uploading, virtual worlds etc. and it even gets into a concept of more singularities where one stage is incomprehensible to the previous but then there are many stages of that where the highest one is absolutely godlike in terms of intelligence, technology, awareness etc.

Wait, but how would it modify billions of cells in humans who are already alive etc.? Genuine question

Examples of rich keeping technologies to themselves... Insulin in the US a patent sold for 1 dollar and now insulin is marked up hundreds of dollars, the patent system etc.

When people are car-brained the only solution they see is more cars and roads, instead of fixing the bad infrastructure, look at this example and my response to them https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/zw253n/comment/j1tmg1i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

When you're car-brained the only solution you see is more cars and roads, instead of fixing the bad infrastructure, look at this example and my response to them https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/zw253n/comment/j1tmg1i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I hope so.

See, this actually directly proves my point. I think you're missing that the reason everything is built so freaking far away in the US is exactly because they're built for cars which makes us dependent on them. The car industry lobbied for these things decades ago in most of the US. In walkable places like NYC, Amsterdam, etc. everything is far more compact and close together.

1. Uh, I don't know if you've heard, but everyone from Manhattan calls it an EXTREMELY walkable community... Tons of people in more compact cities talk about how they can often get away with not needing a car to get to work etc.
2. I think you're taking "walkable" too literally, it just means a community where stuff like motor vehicles aren't needed, which is actually way better for the disabled; currently it's a lot harder for people who are disabled to drive and as a result get a good job in America outside of tightly-knit cities, source on this below. It's even harder for them to travel long distances in non-walkable communities because of easier risk of things like being run over. Contrast to walkable cities where everything is far more compacted together and easier to access.

Only one-fifth of people age 18 to 64 work full- or part-time if they have travel-limiting disabilities. This percentage declined from previous years. In contrast, over three-quarters of people without disabilities age 18 to 64 work.Slightly over half of people age 18 to 64 with disabilities live in households with annual household incomes under $25,000 versus 15 percent of people without disabilities.Over one-fifth of non-workers and 12 percent of workers age 18 to 64 with disabilities live in zero-vehicle households. Source: https://www.bts.gov/travel-patterns-with-disabilities

Yeah, it’s interesting how people say these things to sound smart but don’t actually respond to what’s being said.

Yeah but with walkable cities you can go anywhere without having to buy a vehicle for thousands of dollars, you can just use your feet.

Genuine question, what exactly do you think makes humans better and more deserving than the environment around them? I genuinely want to see the kind of reasoning as to why someone would think like this.

Edit: surprised I’m being downvoted for asking this.

1. Fine. How about walkable cities? Besides, you’re stuck in traffic with others in this situation anyway.
2. We are part of the environment that we are killing which we rely on.

1. ⁠⁠⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7n6ql2/is_the_black_book_of_communism_an_accurate_source/ The black book of communism’s count of how many deaths is wildly inaccurate and proven here to have artificially inflated the numbers, through nearly half a dozen sources linked throughout the comment.
2. ⁠⁠⁠Approximately 20 million people die every year due to the effects of capitalism, such as starvation, lack of access to clean water, lack of access to shelter, lack of access to reasonably priced medicine and vaccines. These people die not because we lack the ability to solve these problems, but because it’s not profitable to do so. Capitalism only focuses on profit. And that’s not even including other issues like suicides caused by poverty, etc. this is not a system that’s working for everyone. Capitalism kills more every 6 years than the black book of communism claims communism killed in a 100 years (which, as shown above was itself already wildly inaccurate and an inflated number)
3. ⁠⁠⁠Historical attempts at communism weren’t really communist, real communism would have be stateless, moneyless and classless; Historical regimes that called themselves communist did not fully fall under these. Communism hasn’t been tried in earnest so you can’t compare it to things that weren’t actually communist but called themselves that, that logic doesn’t work in the real world.
4. ⁠⁠⁠If you’re gonna use the black book of communism’s ways of counting deaths under communism (which literally included things like Nazis killed by communists, etc.), then if you do it to capitalism it is far worse:

100,000,000: Extermination of native Americans (1492–1890) 15,000,000: Atlantic slave trade (1500–1870) 150,000: French repression of Haiti slave revolt (1792–1803) 300,000: French conquest of Algeria (1830–1847) 50,000: Opium Wars (1839–1842 & 1856–1860) 1,000,000: Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849) 100,000: British supression of the Sepoy Mutiny (1857–1858) 20,000: Paris Commune Massacre (1871) 29,000,000: Famine in British Colonized India (1876–1879 & 1897–1902) 3,445: Black people lynched in the US (1882–1964) 10,000,000: Belgian Congo Atrocities: (1885–1908) 250,000: US conquest of the Philipines (1898–1913) 28,000: British concentration camps in South Africa (1899–1902) 800,000: French exploitation of Equitorial Africans (1900–1940) 65,000: German genocide of the Herero and Namaqua (1904–1907) 10,000,000: First World War (1914–1918) 100,000: White army pogroms against Jews (1917–1920) 600,000: Fascist Italian conquest in Africa (1922–1943) 10,000,000: Japanese Imperialism in East Asia (1931–1945) 200,000: White Terror in Spain (1936–1945) 25,000,000: Nazi oppression in Europe: (1938–1945) 30,000: Kuomintang Massacre in Taiwan (1947) 80,000: French suppression of Madagascar revolt (1947) 30,000: Israeli colonization of Palastine (1948-present) 100,000: South Korean Massacres (1948–1950) 50,000: British suppression of the Mau-Mau revolt (1952-1960) 16,000: Shah of Iran regime (1953–1979) 1,000,000: Algerian war of independence (1954–1962) 200,000: Juntas in Guatemala (1954–1962) 50,000: Papa & Baby Doc regimes in Haiti (1957–1971) 3,000,000: Vietnamese killed by US military (1963–1975) 1,000,000: Indonesian mass killings (1965–1966) 1,000,000: Biafran War (1967–1970) 400: Tlatelolco massacre (1968) 700,000: US bombing of Laos & Cambodia (1967–1973) 50,000: Somoza regime in Nicaragua (1972–1979) 3,200: Pinochet regime in Chile: (1973–1990) 1,500,000: Angola Civil War (1974–1992) 200,000: East Timor massacre (1975–1998) 1,000,000: Mozambique Civil War (1975–1990) 30,000: US-backed state terrorism in Argentina (1975–1990) 70,000: El Salvador military dictatorships (1977–1991) 30,000: Contra proxy war in Nicaragua: (1979–1990) 16,000: Bhopal Carbide disaster (1984) 3,000: US invasion of Panama (1989) 1,000,000: US embargo on Iraq (1991–2003) 400,000: Mujahideen faction conflict in Afghanistan (1992–1996) 200,000: Destruction of Yugoslavia (1992–1995) 6,000,000: Congolese Civil War (1997–2008) 30,000: NATO occupation of Afghanistan (2001-present)

1. Yeah, you’d be surprised to see how many trans people are in situations where they can’t be independent from family etc. or can’t transition due to such things as people around them threatening them with violence etc. a study found a HUGE amount of detrans people detransition due to external social pressure, I can send you it if you want

2. Trans people aren’t brain dead, we can distinguish between stuff we are dysphoric about (e.g my chest being small) due to gender and stuff we are dysmorphic about (e.g like the big ears thing you mentioned). also, transitioning is the medically endorsed treatment for gender dysphoria

3. It is based on a lot of studies I can pull up if you’d like, and this was coming from a doctor so who would I rather trust, an actual doctor or a random guy online in a totally unrelated field? also you’re the one being unscientific here by claiming about the “behaving like the gender changes your brain to that thing.” As for what the traits of a woman are, I’d say a woman is just someone who identifies as such; “Woman” is just an identity label. Claims about identity are unfalsifiable and therefore not debatable.

4. Again, you’re confusing sexual dimorphism, gender norms, and neurological gender; I would say that we cannot determine the identity of the chimp, we could call it male because it is an animal but that is not the same as the identity humans have that we call a man.

Also, did I comment to you the trans fact sheet document above?

Any interest in actually responding please instead of thought-stopping dismissal?

I think post-singularity society shouldn’t be capitalist anyway, capitalism relies on the rich taking the value of the working class’s efforts and on artificial scarcity etc. removing that would solve those issues. Check out the Venus Project for more info on how this would be different; a resource based economy. For example we absolutely have enough resources for things like bullet trains, shelter for everyone (there are 30x more empty homes than homeless people in the US), etc. it’s just that capitalism is inefficient)

Yes, I fully agree with this.

Thanks for sharing!

Look at the system that allowed them to gain that wealth in the first place while allowing others to starve and die on the streets... That’s what we should be changing. Also, no, not all billionaires help. A charity organization gave Elon Musk a plan to solve world hunger for a few hundred million dollars that he never accepted, but then he went on to buy Twitter for 40 billion dollars. They’re often just selfish.

Holy shit that is the worst point ever, by that logic cavemen wouldn’t have ever developed farms, technology, and civilization because they didn’t have a profit incentive to improve their lives. Capitalism isn’t fueling the innovation, it often actually steals from the public sector, such as the internet, smartphone tech, GPS etc.. It’s laborers, scientists etc. doing the work, not the billionaires; the billionaires are just side effects of the system. The system lets them hoard all the wealth and pay the laborers a small fraction to get the credit and most of the profit, and apparently it’s working on you. I can send you more info on this if you like?

Also I think post-singularity society shouldn’t be capitalist anyway, capitalism relies on the rich taking the value of the working class’s efforts and on artificial scarcity etc. removing that would solve those issues. Check out the Venus Project for more info on how this would be different; a resource based economy. For example we absolutely have enough resources for things like bullet trains, shelter for everyone, etc. it’s just that capitalism is inefficient.