>>231466Gene editing:
Fuck the chinese. Kill all those fucking bug-people! Wipe these freedom-hating commie assholes from the face of this earth! The made two girls (who would most likely would never have had problems with aids) immune to aids and accidently reduced their life expectancy by 6-7 years in doing so. Also they reduced human beings to the status of fruit flies.
Even is we found the perfect genes to implant it would only lead to a mono-culture that would be extremly effected by changes of the environment and the only thing that is steady in this universe is the change. THERE IS A REASON THERE IS A NORMAL DISTRIBUTION!
But lets not get hypothetical, lets stick with what we know about genes: Genes are a loosely defined set of organic complexes that are not always active. They have dozens and dozens of switches to turn them on and off, can be distributed over the whole of the chromosome and even 3-dimensionaly across different chromosomes. They can switch position and function over time. They produce up to 40 different proteins each that interact with other proteins to build structures and chemical processes that interact with other structures and chemical processes to build up cells that interacts with other billions of cells to form active-stable organic systems that we call humans. Don't forget the rna though.
We know jack shit.
Transhumanism:
I am fucking disgusted. There are a couple of small problems like getting medical staff to do the procedures which will probably give you multi-resistannt germs or that your body will reject the foreign matter. What are you trying to archieve here? Get perception of things that have no relevance like röntgen radiation? Get an uplink so you don't have to manually use your smartphone? Get artificial limbs that are somehow "better"?
You make yourself dependent on that technology and it will change you. Leave hacking aside, it will change you to the very core. Watch your human body rot away while you got that fancy sci-fi shit getting replaced and updated. Look at all these skin-bags that rot away and treat you with hostility. You are robot master-race!
You are going to degenerate into a machine, into a drone like in Starcraft that can't live without the hive-mind that is the internet. How am I to take you seriously if I don't know if you are just an outlet for jokes.com or a genuinly funny person. Also smartphone already reduce the average IQ. You will be a driveling travesty as soon as there are connection problems.
... be smarter, life longer...
You know most smart people have a hard time dealing with this world and there is a lot of suffering and darkness that surrounds them, one could even argue that suffering is an essential part to their being because they need intelligence to beat it in any way.
Living longer? Ever heard of age-suicide? Watch all you know wither away in this dreadful world? Be there, isolated in your tower, like a vampire, cynical and disgusted by everything you see because you have seen better. How many of your pals are 60, 70, 80 years old? You are nothing but a source of knowledge by that age and people will treat you like that.
If you want to "enhance" yourself don't take the easy road! Read a book, have a healthy died, do some sports, talk to people, fixy some problems...
To boil it down into one sentence: I am not a fan.