Why do you (transhumanists in general) care if mainstream thinking in modern civilization cares about ‘Transhumanism’?
If you talk to random people on the street about transhumanism, you will get eye-squinting and other strange responses. For the most part, the response will be negative. Transhumanism is not anywhere close to anything the av [...]
Monthly archives for December, 2012
Evolution to Mainstream Thinking – go...
Why do you (transhumanists in general) care if mainstream thinking in modern civilization cares about ‘Transhumanism’?
If you talk to random people on the street about transhumanism, you will get eye-squinting and other strange responses. For the most part, the response will be negative. Transhumanism is not anywhere close to anything the av [...]
A Way Forward: Surviving Climate Chan...
Climate change has been a topic much in the news for the last decade. Most of the coverage has centered on various theories which have discussed what the cause of the current climate change is. There has been much debate over the question: “Have we as humans been causing or accelerating the problem or is it simply part of a naturally oc [...]
Interview with an AI (Artificial Inte...
I was thinking about ideas for an article on my train ride home from the experience lab I work in, and it came to me that it would be interesting to actually have an interview with an AI only a little bit better than us, maybe one that is one of the first kinds of true AI and for fun let’s say it has lived with us for a few decades inco [...]
The Archive Project
The Archive Project is about building a library of knowledge that is resilient enough to last for centuries. The purpose of such an archive is to help ensure a post human or trans-human civilization based on ours, for us or our children or even our machines. With the Archive, we work towards the long term success of intelligence in the univer [...]
Enter Ubiquity
The coming slate wars in the next wave of the march towards singularity. The future is coming… its modern, its clean, its fast and in motion and we almost don’t see it past the latest gadget. We’ve gotten past the latest feature and, frequently, it’s about the more transcendental experience of the gadget then any one f [...]
On Sacred Intelligence
What is the most important thing in existence? On the surface this seems a very existential question but in truth there is a simple and elegant answer; that is to say intelligence, and like unto it knowledge, are the most important things in existence. But you might ask why? Why is intelligence and knowledge so important as to be the most imp [...]
Why “Foundation”
Someone, amazingly enough, asked me; “Why Foundation? There are a lot of great organizations out there from futurist organizations or library groups to numerous religions why not one of those?” This really gets to the heart of the issue as all of these organizations have good things and I could dedicate my life to them, but from m [...]
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