A Distrust of Self-Organizing Systems & Other Alleged Deities

... any and am very unlikely to every change this. I'm willing to bargain with gods, but I have no interest in believing that any god or deified and reified system is inherently superior to humanity in terms of managing phenomena that affect humanity. Of course, at the heart of my transhumanist spirituality is the firm belief that playing god is the most worthy endeavor that humanity can aspire to.

...не очень актуально. А вот летать без помощи самолёта со скоростью 800 км/час, как обещает Майкл Анисимов, очень бы хотелось. http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2007/01/ten-transhumanist-upgrades-everyone-will-want/ 4) СПАСИБО СБЕРБАНКУ ЗА НАШЕ СЧАСТЛИВОЕ ДЕТСТВО! Хотел покрыть матом Сбербанк, но вспомнил, что решил писать только позитивное, поэтому, сдержусь. Вознамерился я по карте ...

Calling all Transhumanist Sci-Fi Numanoids!

Sean Stewart's latest novel, Saturn Returns , is by itself a wonderful piece of posthuman space opera. But you know what makes it cooler than anything I've ever read? Stewart set out to write a posthuman gothic novel. And, as he puts it in his afterword, "Who better to reference, when combining science fiction and gothic concerns, than seminal electronic musician Gary Numan?" One of the ...

WTF

... carry stuff like that, but that's all the way in Toronto, and it's typically for women. Also, I'm not into the whole fishnet shirt thing. Specifically speaking, I'm more into the cyber-goth/transhumanist kinda thing anyhow. I mean, I don't have these deep, bred-in beliefs that the human race is going to become a pack of machines, but I do know that we are definitely becoming less-human . Which ...

Some random musings

We ought to be very cautious about predicting future technological change. I've recently been reading much of the transhumanist/singularity crowd and some of the predictions are pretty wild . I want to know: are we biased in predicting fantastic events in the future? There is one structural change that I think is in fact increasing technological development: more scientists and more global ...

People Can Live for 2.000 Years or Matrix is Here!

...of the ninth annual meeting of the World Transhumanist Association (WTA) in Chicago. Sandberg and his fellow... 5000 in the past seven years, and transhumanist student groups have sprung up at university ...I discover the less egalitarian side to the transhumanist community when I meet Marvin Minsky, the... the same values as other people." The transhumanist movement has been struggling in recent years ...

Anti-transhumanism

A while back, there was a slightly anti-transhumanist article on Kuro5hin . On the mailing list I'm subscribed to (SL4), they pointed out some erroneous assumptions. But the best response was: "I'd say since the author doesn't see the point in extending their own life, you can win the argument simply by outliving them." (of course, if transhumanism is bollocks, this won't happen but then you ...

Here's why I'm stupid

...for a more productive, more cooperative, more inventive world, but I'm a big fan of people modifying their own appearance (tattoos, piercings, hair dye) instead of just going with what evolution gave them. I'm a transhumanist, I'd love to pick my own skin color - and it would sure as hell be darker than my current one. So, yeah. I'll shut up now. Science works, bitches, and the flat earth beliefs...

The Ungh What A.... Fill In The Blank Post

... like the idea of being uploads into a matrix. where I can roam free or even be transfered into a new body Ghost In The Shell Style. That fact that there are real life authoritarian and libertarian Transhumanist movements is kinda nuts but hey a lot of wealthy and not so wealthy people are shit scared of death. And, as they don't want to turn to religion for preservation they turn to the movement ...

Hyperjobs

...://www.hermangroup.com/futurespeak/view_articles_future.php ). Other individuals are predicting the type of work that we will be undertaking in the future ( http://sentientdevelopments.blogspot.com/2007/01/transhumanist-jobs-of-future.html ). Knowledge is power in the digital economy!   I predict that the more specialised knowledge one has, the more power and earning capacity one can ...