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World’s 10 Most Amazing Robots – Hybrid Librarian
A fantastic video from Hybrid Librarian. Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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Five Top Reasons Transhumanism Can Eliminate Suffering
Posted to TNet: Thu, October 18, 2012 | By: David Pearce Reality is big. So our optimism must be confined to sentient beings in our forward light-cone. But I tentatively predict that the last experience below “hedonic zero” will be a precisely dateable event several hundred years hence. Here are five grounds for cautious optimism: 1. We Shall Soon Be Able To Choose Our Own Level Of Pain-Sensitivity It’s hard to convey in words the frightfulness of unrelieved physical pain. Millions of people with chronic pain syndromes suffer severe physical pain each day. However, a revolution in reproductive medicine is imminent. We’ll shortly be able to choose the genetically-shaped pain…
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Unarmed Combat in Zero G
As far as I know, nobody so far has actually experimentally investigated martial arts in a weightless environment, other than under water. This article concerns constraints and opportunities presented by unarmed combat in zero-G environments without a spacesuit being involved. If one includes a spacesuit then we are in a situation analogous to knights in armor, where the only realistic option is a weapon, probably a reactionless pistol based on the Gyrojet. What is not an option are the “space axes” of the 1940s SF writer E E “doc” Smith! While some insights can be gained by practicing in a swimming pool many crucial features of true freefall are missing,…
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Eugenics and Transhumanism
Eugenics, well it’s all about killing off genetic defectives, gassing people designated as insane or subhuman and giving lethal injections to kids with learning difficulties. Or at least it has become that in popular imagination. The original impetus for eugenics was the observation by certain members of Victorian era Middle Class scientific establishment that the feckless poor (and therefore stupid) were out-breeding clever people and thereby dumbing down Humanity as a whole and the “superior races” in particular. Ways had to be found of discouraging big families amongst the “wrong people” and encouraging the “right people” to breed a bit more. Since the “right people” were generally fairly intelligent, articulate…
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The Great Sierras of Books of Ancient Early Transhuman Earth – Immortal Life
Author: Eric Schulke – Immortal Life There are so many possibilities in life, and there is so much to see. The idiosyncratic things there are out there, the diverse, original, perspectifying types of things out there to be experienced, seem to be infinite. As one example, that I hope doesn’t happen, but I humored the other day, is: I wonder if books could become so obsolete in the future that they end up being shredded or something like that. It seems it could happen because, let’s say, Earth is abandoned after people have colonized the universe for so long, that they have forgotten about it. Then the long standing buildings…
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Do Robots Deserve the Right to Unionize?
Posted to TNet: Mon, June 10, 2013 | By: B. J. Murphy In 1979, sociologist Prof. Albert J. Szymanski once said: “The energy for change comes from the emotions. It comes from feelings of frustration that arise when people’s needs are not met. If people were computers that could be programmed to do anything their masters wanted, there would be no pressure for change, even if some computers were treated much worse than others… But people have physical and emotional needs that cannot be met in a class society which gives power and wealth to some at the expense of others.” (Szymanski, Sociology, p. 321) And while I certainly agree in the context…
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The Praxis
The Praxisi is the name of a book authored by myself that was created as part of the Phi Division of Zero Stateii and published in collaboration with Zero State Mediaiii as Project 011. The aim is to present aspects of Transhumanism in an explicitly religious and simplified context, then follow it up with the actual praxis itself i.e. the conversion of a philosophy into action. Since it has been reviewed by Giulio Priscoiv both here (IEET) and in his blog I will cover some of the features omitted by Giulio and only treat the remainder lightly. Briefly, since I assume everyone reading this is familiar with the standard tropes…
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DIY Brain Hacking with Andrew Vladimirov Speaker Preview of Anticipating 2025
The following video is from the London Futurists Channel. This will all be part of the Anticipating 2025 conference March 22 and 23 2014 in London. Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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Help Teach 1000 Children That Death is Wrong – Indiegogo Fundraiser
Author: Gennady Stolyarov II This is the description of my ambitious new project in conjunction with MILE – the Movement for Indefinite Life Extension – to distribute 1000 copies of Death is Wrong to children, free of cost to them. You can visit the Indiegogo project page and contribute here. Project Description Who are you and what are you trying to do? I am an actuary, author, philosopher, futurist, and advocate of indefinite life extension. I have published The Rational Argumentator, an online magazine championing the principles of reason, rights, and progress, since 2002. You can find out more about me here. For this project, I am partnering with the Movement for…
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AMTV – TRANSHUMAN: Quantum Computing to Grant Immortality by 2035
This video is from Christopher Greene of AMTV, it addresses the fear of Transhumanism and Quantum Computing for the general public. It is an interesting video to watch, so give it a gander and I will have comments below. This video has some recurring themes, first of all, I guess most futurists / transhumanists are supposed to worship at the Google Hall of Ray Kurzweil. I find it amusing, but it does provide a problem and that problem is fear. You can never turn your back on people who are genuinely afraid. This is the problem of dumbing down the population, it gives rise to ignorance. When you have a mix of fear, science fiction terms…
