Also, in order to reach Type I, it is important that we
believe that it is
us, the
humans, rather than the other
species on the
planet, that deserve the
energy. Of course,
Transhumanists believe that
space provides
ample room for
expansion, so long as we
exploit it
to the fullest. . . .
Those who colonised the Americas and Australia believed the same thing. This aspect of transhumanism is just manifest destiny on a much larger scale. It's amazing how so few things really change.
I am hardly anti-technology. . . I agree with many of the precepts of XH. I cannot, however, abide the view that humans are the only really important thing to come out of the Earth's billions of years of development.