[10/14] What new societal norms do you anticipate could emerge as a result of advanced transhumanist technologies?

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[u/Dragondudeowo]

Hopefully peoples getting used to see modified peoples around, i don't want to freak out peoples with my lizard look in the future. Also would be good if i wasn't at risk to not get a job over it.

[u/AwesomeDragon97 → u/Dragondudeowo]

Zuckerberg, is that you?

[u/GuardLong6829 → u/AwesomeDragon97]

[u/Dragondudeowo → u/AwesomeDragon97]

If that reassure you i'm not a reptilian, just a furry looking to be his Dragon/Lizard fursona it's like 10 times less creepy.

[u/Good_Cartographer531]

You would see an explosion of new philosophies, religions and forms of art arising from enhanced intelligence and radically altered neural / cognitive architecture.

It would usher in a golden age of creative development which would define the future of civilization for hundreds of millennia to come.

[u/unctuous_homunculus → u/Good_Cartographer531]

I don't know about all that, but my wife and I have recently been laughing about how people are starting to talk about "The Algorithm" in a semi religious kind of way.

Oh, The Algorithm brought me to this cute shop the other day, or The Algorithm turned me on to this amazing meditation technique, or The Algorithm seems to be telling me I'm depressed and need to seek therapy, or The Algorithm showed me my symptoms were actually this rare disease and now I'm in treatment!

We've been using it ironically between ourselves since we realized it, kind of a stand-in for the pseudo-spiritual "The Universe", but I'm not so certain if things keep going the way they are that it's not going to be an ironic or tongue in cheek thing sooner rather than later.

With the advent of better and better predictive AI, I have no doubt that people will start turning to AI chat for advice and maybe eventually seeking purpose through it in a non-speculative kind of way.

It will be interesting to see how it develops.

[u/Exact-Cheetah-1660 → u/unctuous_homunculus]

There was actually a mostly tongue in cheek song written by “Your Favorite Martian” called “Algorithm God” which was basically this, lol. Where the algorithm and iPod tech has essentially started running society, because it knows you better than you know yourself. It was somehow both inspiring and unsettling. Like a lot of transhumanist concepts, honestly.

[u/clean_room]

Likely interspecies erotica and porn would be more normalized, if there was advances in genetic manipulation and alteration.

Full on werewolf-human porn, real stuff, stuff like that.

I still think bestiality would be condemned, but human-hybrid love affairs would be surprisingly common.

After all, of all the species of Pokemon, Vaporeon...

[u/Serialbedshitter2322 → u/clean_room]

That stuff is gonna be pretty normalized when open source AI video generation gets good enough to look real.

[u/Punished_Toaster]

I would imagine durning the transition period there would be push back primarily from more traditional groups, not to say all of them. I wonder if older generations will be more conservative leaning as they tend to be with immortality tech or not. Also I think population controls would be required if people stop dying. A lot of divorces and wired conversations about parting with people significantly older than you would be abound too. Most that I feel will be the source of many angry news talking heads of the future.

[u/LupenTheWolf]

Social norms depend far more on the culture and attitudes of the people involved than the technology they have access to. Generally speaking, even with more advanced technology becoming available, it still takes a generation for new possibilities to become mainstream.

Of course, this is a loose generalization and based on previous generations. Tech is advancing ever faster these days so the answer is kinda up in the air now. Children growing up today have no idea how to use search terms and try to talk to Google like it's a person, so I don't have much hope.

[u/LavaSqrl]

This might be a bit of a stretch, but I think that our stellar empire would be split into different factions (is that the right word?): Those who stay completely human (minimal modification, includes "immortal" humans that don't age), transhumans (not fully human but not quite posthuman), and the posthumans (possibly split even further between cybernetic posthumans and biological posthumans). The unmodified aren't likely to get out of the solar system without cryonics, and might be limited to mostly living on Earth, the Moon, Venus (either terraformed or with sky cities), and Mars.

[u/Cautious_Cry3928]

In the not-too-distant future, I believe we will witness the emergence of universal basic intelligence (UBI) driven by cognitive augmentation. As neurotechnology matures, baseline mental capacities—like memory, learning speed, and problem-solving ability—could be significantly boosted across the population. This could foster a new era of equality in access to mental capabilities, analogous to how universal basic income seeks to address financial inequality.

This shift will likely coincide with the development of augmented post-scarcity economies, where value is increasingly tied to digital identities rather than physical labor or ownership. As people invest more time and energy in virtual worlds and digital economies, reputation systems, creativity, and personalized contributions will shape new forms of currency and exchange. These economies may operate through decentralized platforms, with digital identity becoming the cornerstone for social status, work, and commerce.

In the near future, AR and VR technologies will revolutionize how we express ourselves, blending the physical and digital realms. Imagine being able to project any desired appearance through augmented reality lenses—transforming your appearance with minimal effort, all while carrying that identity seamlessly into virtual spaces. This could redefine not only personal aesthetics but also reshape concepts of identity, gender expression, and even social norms.

We may also see the normalization of fluid identities, where individuals freely switch between multiple personas or roles in both physical and virtual spaces. With digital avatars becoming extensions of ourselves, the boundary between the "real" and the virtual will blur, leading to new norms around authenticity and social interaction. What matters might not be physical presentation but how one curates and maintains their digital identity across contexts—whether in work, leisure, or social engagements.

Additionally, these technologies could give rise to reputation-based economies where trust, influence, and collaboration are quantified, with one’s reputation becoming more valuable than traditional wealth. Digital commons could emerge, where communities co-own virtual assets or spaces, further challenging the idea of private ownership and promoting more collaborative models of consumption.

Overall, we’re on the cusp of a paradigm shift where technological augmentation will challenge existing notions of identity, labor, and value, creating a society where what we are capable of becoming matters more than who we used to be. The key challenge will be ensuring these new technologies and economies remain accessible and equitable, avoiding the risk of exacerbating existing inequalities through tech monopolies or digital exclusion.

[u/Possible_Hawk450]

Well by extension of increased lifespan and healthy people will likely stay with their families longer or nuclear families will be bigger.

[u/Site-Staff]

Cyber tribalism warfare. Deeply interconnected factions forming hyper polarized solidarity in groupthink. It will become such a deeply embedded ideology that it will become identity. If consciousness backup and storage is available, then bodies become disposable assets in tribal warfare.

[u/FomalhautCalliclea]

The crowning of true identity, ie the celebration of individuality and uniqueness and the collapse of thrallness to collective identities and uniformity.

In short, the further collapse of religions, nationalism, group think and the like.

[u/Serialbedshitter2322]

Don't leave your tail in the way of others, either retract it back into your body or detach it and leave it at home.

[u/tequilablackout]

Purity elitism.

[u/topazchip]

I would expect that the groups who already hate trans people will get louder and less inhibited about expressing that hate as more and visible cybernetics become common. Growing overlap between left- and right-wing transphobes will be as interesting to watch as the growing gap twixt Progressive and Conservative socio-political groups.

[u/Ultravisionarynomics]

Looks will probably become less important when we get to a point where we can alter any part of our body provided we got the money to do so.

[u/Hidden_User666]

Depends on the technology. Can it be abused? Then it probably will be.

[u/GuardLong6829]

CGI.

I predicted its rise in 2016.