Editorial: The Mathematics of Up Wing Democracy on Future Day 2015
Some musings on the future of democracy on Future Day 2015.
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Editorials
What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate
In a recent article over at the ironically named "Evolution News", an intelligent design blog, ID advocate and frequent critic of transhumanism Wesley J. Smith gets nearly everything wrong.
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Get Happy: Why Superintelligent AI Will Probably be Superfriendly
History suggests that superintelligent AI has a better probability of finding ways to accomplish its goals with less violence.
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Becoming Ourselves
People are seeking to become cyborgs whether through fashion, medical improvement, or any of the areas in between. As more and more people enhance themselves we notice that humanity is becoming something greater than we ever thought possible. We are evolving into a new species.
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John Galt is Homeless
Selfishness used to be a virtue. It was a way to advance ourselves in capitalist society. We were supposed to put ourselves before other people and this was supposed to be the gateway to success. Yet this was not the way of the future and many of us were in for quite a surprise.
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Occupy — Brand of the People
When I first heard that the entire left was selling products under the Occupy name my natural reaction was disgust. I am very critical of liberals because I have experienced their hypocrisy on a firsthand basis.
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My Hostility Towards the Concept of Friendly-AI
"Involuntary friendliness" is censorship of consciousness akin to removing all the unfriendly words from the dictionary, making it impossible to express unfriendly ideas, which is a premise of language control proposed in the book "1984".
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The Singularity and Transhumanism
The Singularity to me seems to be a little bit too 'singular'. It seems to assume that all these different technologies converge and take off all at the same pace. Whereas in my view, we're more likely to see a Surge which might trail off, might slow down—in fact, maybe a series of surges.
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