transhumanism is the recursive process of technological self-improvement reference extropian principles http://www.maxmore.com/extprn3.htm with the right sort of cultivation, a human's capabilities can grow in any given dimension. although there exist many capabilities one may wish to improve, here we will only include those capabilities which are expected to contribute to further improvement. thus "the ability to fool oneself with wishful thinking" is not included in the list of justifications. sort projects by dimension of capability, feasibility, and expected effectiveness list of justifications, our core goals and values: overcoming limits (increase maximum performance) physical strength perseverance sustained attention maximum complexity awareness bandwidth in sensory awareness information awareness pattern recognition complexity per unit time (increase) bandwidth out action latency expressiveness reduced time to mutual understanding communicate mental state and perceived history communicate plans, goals, models improve system resilience (increase minimum performance) (zero performance means you're dead) mobility eliminate single points of failure biological immortality increase diversity partition society into loosely coupled units self-sufficiency improve effectiveness (increase average performance) signal to noise ratio (increase) reduce extraneous input increase network size social interaction cross section (increase) flattening of social hierarchies reduce duplicated effort repeatable open source development delegation (offloading) leverage diversity of talent memory spatial awareness technology that enables technology development more useful mental models more predictive human performance descriptors reduction of unnecessary pain create drive for improvement