It's weird seeing human supremacists in the transhumanist movement and honestly it feels like a co-opting of the movement by tech bros. I think anarcho transhumanism has more in common with medpunk than eugenics, but capitalist transhumanists often fall into eugenicist and human supremacist territory.
I think if transhumanism is not focused on expanding agency and liberation, it can lead to nasty consequences.
For those that don't know, medpunk is the idea that the medical industry should be reformed to be anti coercive and allow for people to choose to acquire disabilities and illnesses as a consequence of absolute morphological and cognitive freedom. I see this as instrumental to anarcho transhumanism as it allows for an expansion of agency in all directions and not letting people become disabled is an ableist ideology.
Back to the whole human supremacist thing, while it is true that most technology has been created from humans, there is a large amount of nonhumans who feel alienated by human centric language and assuming every person you meet identifies as human can be discriminatory towards nonhumans.
I see a lot of silicon valley type people push a neoliberal notion of transhumanism that looks very similar to cyberpunk dystopias, however they are now trying to co-opt solarpunk aesthetics as that looks more popular lately. Solarpunk was never liberal to begin with. It has always had roots in anarchism, but the same people who sold us crustpunk gear for sale will try to get us to buy rebellion as a consumer rather than produce revolutionary art and DIY resistance.
Anarcho transhumanism has to be intersectional, not just white men in board rooms buying so stock so they can fuel their bubble.
I see people buying into tech bros words as if they are not the same people who stole our data to feed their enshitification of society. AI Tech bros are racist and often expand into indigenous territory and steal water from communities of color
We honestly don't feel anywhere near qualified to be talking about this but it's just something that annoys us. Tired of seeing Tech bros think that llms will solve all our problems while ignoring the very real problems that AI datacenters create for the majority of people.
