Conceptually? I'm all for it. Why wouldn't I be.

In practice, we live in a capitalist society and I don't want an arm that makes me watch an advertisement before I open a bag of chips.

Not against it on principle, but there's no way I'd get it knowing about the way the corporations that have the resources to make it happen operate.

There are a lot of different human faculties that can be augmented!

We augment our senses every day with tools like microphones, microscopes, radio, radar, telescopes, X-rays, cameras, etc.

And when our senses fail us, we augment them with eyeglasses, hearing aids, and so on.

We augment our legs with bicycles, skateboards, cars, airplanes, etc.

And when our legs fail us, we augment them with braces, crutches, wheelchairs, electric scooters, walkers, etc.

We augment our memory retrieval with writing, library science, search engines, and regular expressions.

We augment our ability to measure lengths with rulers, measuring-tapes, and surveying equipment.

We augment our immune systems with masks, rubber gloves, antiseptics, antibiotics, cancer therapies, water treatment, etc.

We augment our sexual functions with erotic stories and art, contraceptives, lubricants, sex toys, dating apps, etc.

We augment our metabolic function with cooking, fermentation, agriculture, selective breeding of crop species, etc.

We augment our musical abilities with horns, percussion, strings, synthesizers, and more.

It turns out that augmenting human ability is itself a core human ability.

I know too many devs to have my body require a firmware update.

Wearable > implantation

Just a security concern. Augmenting is great but we don't want the augmentations to become a liability. Obviously there are exceptions to every rule, if we invent a robotic arm replacement for someone who's lost one, the security concerns are generally lower than the quality of life improvement of having a functioning arm 99% of the time, and there's an argument for the potential ability for rapid detachment in case of emergency, but once we get into subdermal and brain implants, we're in a territory where these things can't be easily removed in case of emergency, and the risks get immense.

As a already augmented human, i fully support this.

Glasses, portable electronic tether, surgery...........

Whatever improves your quality of life I’m all for.

The flesh is weak. Only the machine is eternal.

Its a good thing? Prosthetics really help disabled people.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel; I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.

Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day, that crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.

But I am already saved.

For the machine is immortal.

I am not looking forward to having my eyes scooped out for a second time because the company providing bionic vision went out of business.

I can't imagine a faster way to dystopia. You'd be literally incapable of disobedience.

I'm all for it, things like cochlear implants have already been improving lives for decades.

This sparks joy: Augmentation to help people become the selves that they would truly like to be.

This does not: Some kind of transhuman singularity dystopia where we have replaced ourselves not out of a soul-driven yearning for our true self, but in service of a cold, quantitative utilitarian calculus that says we must shed our skin because it is logically inferior.

I would say "i never asked for this", but actually i did.

I'm currently wearing a continuous glucose monitor. Does that count? I'm all for anything voluntary especially if it improves quality of life without impeding on others.

I didn't ask for this. - Adam Jenson

I think it'll be cool in like, 50 years once the technology is there. Right now all it does is kill monkeys.

Natural will always feel better, but I wouldn't complain either way

I prefer my humans segmented into highest $$$ parts thank you.

I like big butts and I cannot lie

Your/my body, your/my choice. People need to stop judging/comparing themselves or try to stop bodily autonomy choices on other's behalf.

Or to be trite, to each their own. What he/she/it/they do with their bodies is this own violation.

Cool for people with disabilities or medical needs. But otherwise I'm not a fan of purely cosmetic/cyberpunk/silicon valley style augmentation.

I read this and thought: if someone wants a boob job: okie.