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Articles related to Futurism and Transhumanism.
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Transhumanist Ideas Need to Evolve for Mainstream Popularity
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 average person cares about. However, if you could back a few decades and ask someone about being ‘Green’ you would get a similar response to what you get now regarding ‘Transhumanism.’ In general, we all seem to agree that Transhumanism by itself is mostly a secular idea; that we as humans can be more than what we are,…
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Transhumanism and Mind Uploading Are Not the Same
Author: Gennady Stolyarov II In what is perhaps the most absurd attack on transhumanism to date, Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com equates this broad philosophy and movement with “the entire idea that you can ‘upload your mind to a computer’” and further posits that the only kind of possible mind uploading is the destructive kind, where the original, biological organism ceases to exist. Adams goes so far as calling transhumanism a “death cult much like the infamous Heaven’s Gate cult led by Marshal Applewhite.” I will not devote this essay to refuting any of Adams’s arguments against destructive mind uploading, because no serious transhumanist thinker of whom I am aware endorses…
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Google … Might Save Humanity From Extinction
The headline over at Huff Post Tech actually reads “Google’s New A.I. Ethics Board Might Save Humanity From Extinction” and the article is filled with a lot of the typical nonsensical, fear-mongering nonsense — BUT the predominant side-effect of a well-funded, high-profile, COMPETENT Ethics Board could well mitigate a world of pain . . . . (Hopefully some of them will be named soon enough that they can be invited to our Implementing Safe Selves portion of the AAAI Spring Symposium series at Stanford, March 24-26.) There’s a lot of traction for the “machines annihilate humanity” storyline — but a clear-headed look at reality shows that it is as scientifically…
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The Liquid Mind – Humanity Uploading
This is a top level article, you are not going to find a “how to” anywhere within this article. It is a way to start a discussion in moving thinking in a different direction. The mentality of uploading a human brain to a mainframe and believing that this is mind uploading is a concept I simply do not believe in. Uploading in that manner is not improving humanity or saving humanity. My goal is an attempt to move transhumanists and futurists into a different direction and hopefully in a direction that may actually work in Humanity Uploading which should be the real goal, it is not just saving the information within…
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Technohumanist International: Placing Humanity, Science and Rationality first.
Author: Marcus Engvall After being on the Internet for a while, I’ve seen the futurist parties come and go, some of them have sizable supporter bases but sometimes they just fizzle and vanish from existence. After a few days of scribbling on notepads, coding websites and thinking, I decided that it’s time someone took charge and create a political party that actually serious about its goals. Thus, Technohumanist International (TH-I) was born. Our organization is currently at its very early stages and we don’t have much of a supporter base compared to movements like the WAVE Movement and Zero State, however, we are growing and members are registering and participating…
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Why I Wrote a Children’s Book on Indefinite Life Extension
Author: Gennady Stolyarov II My greatest fear about the future is not of technology running out of control or posing existential risks to humankind. Rather, my greatest fear is that, in the year 2045, I will be 58 years old and already marked by notable signs of senescence, sitting at the kitchen table, drinking my morning coffee, and wondering, “What happened to that Singularity we were promised by now? Why did it not come to pass? Why does the world of 2045 look pretty much like the world of 2013, with only a few cosmetic differences?” My greatest fear is that, as I stare into that mug of coffee, I…
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Four Horsemen Documentary – Renegade Economist
The following video documentary is provided from Renegade Economist. It is 1.5 hours long and it is a must watch and learn. This is a video that should be taught in all schools world wide. Watch and Learn People. I will have my own commentary below. The only issue that I have with the video is the terrorist section. They list a small section of about 1 to 2 minutes concerning military operations and how it leads to more terrorists. That principle is false and it will always be false. The problem of Islamists and similar groups like the Tea Party in America, is mixing extreme religious views with a fear of…
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There is Life Outside the Holodeck
Author : Armand Vespertine It has been said many times by many different people that the Holodeck will be Humanity’s last invention. The argument goes that if we could create a simulated reality indistinguishable from the real world, the average person (if not everyone) would elect to live in their own personalized fantasy world. I personally consider this line of thinking technophobic fear-mongering, based on a shallow and biased analysis of both the technology in question as well as Humanity. The kind of people who make this argument are usually the same kind of people who believe that Star Trek’s replicator would also be the end of everything since it would…
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The Musk of Mars
Author : Armand Vespertine Here we are at the dawn of private space flight, and it seems we’re going to Mars. There’s already the Mars One project, which plans to send 4 people to Mars in 2023 by making a reality show of it. Billionaire Elon Musk has also set his eyes on the mightiest of planets. He’s been quoted as saying “I want to die on Mars, just not on impact.” With at least two private programs aiming for Mars by the 2020s (and perhaps a space race between them to help develop the necessary technologies), for the moment it seems that this is really going to happen. What’s exciting…
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Egypt Fighting For The Future
Originally Published On RedWolf’s Hall July 5th, 2013 The people of Egypt made the correct decision and are fighting for the future of their nation. The Muslim Brotherhood is an islamist organization that will drag the Egyptian people back to the stone age. This is all about the future for the Egyptian people and the geopolitics need to come to an end. Egypt throughout history had been a society of technologically advanced people. Now these same people are going backwards as the rest of the Western World are moving forward. Look at this image above, it is a valid symbol of Egypt’s past and future. The pyramids are the height and…
