stuhlmueller + transhumanism   18

Day Million by Frederik Pohl
A classic short story about a romance in the year 2737.
scifi  story  transhumanism 
december 2010 by stuhlmueller
Boosting your brainpower: Ethical aspects of cognitive enhancements (BMA)
Discusses current and future methods of cognitive enhancement, ethical implications and how we, as a society, ought to respond. Comprehensive and balanced.
cognition  brain  transhumanism  ethics  future 
november 2007 by stuhlmueller
What Smartness Means (Michael Anissimov)
If the smartest human we can throw at the problem is just about as good as anyone else, then we project the quality of hardness onto the problem - not onto the abstract recognition that “human intelligence isn’t good enough”.
ai  transhumanism  singularity 
may 2007 by stuhlmueller
Predictions from Philosophy
How philosophers could make themselves useful.
bostrom  philosophy  transhumanism 
april 2007 by stuhlmueller
Nick Bostrom: Humanity's biggest problems aren't what you think they are (TED)
Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind, and asks whether we can -- or should -- alter our fundamental nature to solve our intrinsic problems.
bostrom  transhumanism  death  futurism  video 
april 2007 by stuhlmueller
What's wrong with our universe (Starglider)
"You seriously want to keep living in a place where only a vanishingly small fraction of dreams are ever realised (and in which even our imaginations are only capable of charting a tiny fraction of the possible)?"
motivation  future  transhumanism 
march 2007 by stuhlmueller
Anti-Transhumanist Gobbledygook (Accelerating Future)
"People that believe in dying have a tendency to select themselves out of the discussion. Meanwhile, their children read Dawkins and Kurzweil and dream of living forever in this, our real world."
transhumanism  society  future 
december 2006 by stuhlmueller
Predicting The Future (Eliezer Yudkowsky)
Keynote address given by Eliezer Yudkowsky at the New York Transhumanist Association: World Futures Symposium.
future  futurism  yudkowsky  transhumanism  talk 
december 2006 by stuhlmueller
Towards Immortality (Economist)
Human nature, says Nick Bostrom, an Oxford University philosopher and advocate of transhumanism, is “a work in progress, a half-baked beginning that we can learn to remould in desirable ways."
transhumanism  bostrom  mainstream 
december 2006 by stuhlmueller
Future of Humanity Institute
"FHI studies big picture questions for humanity. We look especially at how anticipated technological developments could affect the human condition, and how we could better understand, evaluate, and respond to radical change."
future  bostrom  transhumanism  ethics 
november 2006 by stuhlmueller
Futurism: Writings by Mitchell Howe
Attempts to introduce the Singularity concept to readers who may be unfamiliar with transhumanist ideas, in 1200 words or less.
singularity  transhumanism  essays 
october 2006 by stuhlmueller
Yehuda Yudkowsky, 1985-2004
How dare the world do this to us? How dare people let it pass unchallenged?
death  transhumanism  yudkowsky  motivation  *insightful 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
A Theory of Fun - A speech by Eliezer Yudkowsky
How much fun is there in the universe? Will we ever run out of fun? Are we having fun yet? And could we be having more fun?
yudkowsky  transhumanism  singularity  fun  talk 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
Review of "Open Your Eyes" (SL4)
If "The Matrix" is a transhumanist action movie, then "Open Your Eyes" is a transhumanist psychological thriller.
yudkowsky  movie  sl4  transhumanism 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
Index of /u/mjrauhal/tv06
Videos of the Transvision conference 2006 (Finland).
transhumanism  transvision  video 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
Transhumanismus - Telepolis-Artikelforum
Was ist ein neurales Interface schon anderes als einfach eine direktere, schnellere und genauere Verbindung als ein Lenkrad eines Autos oder ein Bildschirm?
transhumanism  intro 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller
The extropy-chat Archives
The longest running transhumanist email list in the world.
transhumanism  mail  chat 
august 2006 by stuhlmueller

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