Singularity/Futures

Let the AIs, not us, formulate a billion-year plan!

In What our civilization needs is a billion-year plan, posted on KurzweilAI September 23, 2012, Lt Col Peter Garretson calls for a long-term plan to assure humanity’s survival, “moving everyone and everything we value off Earth.” He cites the coming big extinction events for planet Earth, including asteroid collisions, the Sun engulfing the Earth during its transformation [...]

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The rise of the machines: and now the really bad news

Vice just posted an update to their “we’re living in a simulation“ interview with Dr. Rich Terrile of NASA JPL. “I think our machines will wake up and take over our society,” he said. “They will become us, we will become them. We’ll merge with machines. Take over? Now wait a minute there, rocket man…. “We have [...]

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The rise of the machines: and now the really bad news

Vice just posted an update to their “we’re living in a simulation“ interview with Dr. Rich Terrile of NASA JPL. “I think our machines will wake up and take over our society,” he said. “They will become us, we will become them. We’ll merge with machines. Take over? Now wait a minute there, rocket man…. “We have [...]

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What our civilization needs is a billion-year plan

Lt Col Garretson — one of the USAF’s most farsighted and original thinkers — has been at the forefront of USAF strategy on the long-term future in projects such as Blue Horizons (on KurzweilAI — see video), Energy Horizons, Space Solar Power, the AF Futures Game, the USAF Strategic Environmental Assessment, and the USAF RPA [...]

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Singularitarians and musicians stage Madrid gathering

A spectre is haunting the world — the Singularity. All the powers of the old world have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre — the Pope and the ayatollahs, the banks and the political parties, and “bioethicists” of both the right and the left. … So says KurzweilAI transhumanist editor Giulio Prisco, [...]

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Chemical brain preservation: how to live ‘forever’ — a personal view

Here’s my 45 minute talk on Chemical Brain Preservation at World Future Society 2012. Given the progress we’ve seen in the relevant science and technologies it’s a topic I’m presently very optimistic about. I had a great audience with lots of questions at the end, but in the interest of brevity I’m just uploading the [...]

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Chemical brain preservation: how to live ‘forever’ — a personal view

Here’s my 45 minute talk on Chemical Brain Preservation at World Future Society 2012. Given the progress we’ve seen in the relevant science and technologies it’s a topic I’m presently very optimistic about. I had a great audience with lots of questions at the end, but in the interest of brevity I’m just uploading the [...]

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book review | Human+ — smartdust, spooks, psychics, and transhumans

Each artificial neuron would communicate with the brain via electrical signals and would be able to wirelessly interface with external hardware, enabling brain-computer networking. Once such networking was established, David noted with interest, Internet telephony could be quite simply deployed. Synthetic telepathy, in other words. … Such advanced technology may be developed in a couple of [...]

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Italy elects first transhumanist MP

A transhumanist congressman? In Italy? Seriously? Yes. In July, Italy — ironically, a stronghold of the Catholic Church —  became the first major Western nation to elect an active transhumanist. Giuseppe Vatinno, a member of the Italian Parliament, ran on a platform of “politics that strive to improve the human condition, making use of appropriate [...]

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Accelerated returns in food production

Ray Kurzweil’s “law of accelerating returns” is a very viable economic theory that can be used to address many of the issues that economists are facing in our times, but unfortunately most university departments of economics pay very little attention to it, whereas the old economic theories are not able to answer issues that global [...]

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