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Well known cyberpunk author John Shirley recently gave a talk at TEDx Brussels in which he discusses two ideas of The Singularity, one true and one false, as well as a dark vision of the near future.

Fatefully, with the explosive growth of science when quantum mechanics and relativity were forming around 1900, physicists were stunned to find long accepted meanings of the reality of material substance, accepted for millennia, inexplicably and deeply undermined! I believe today’s situation suffers analogously; within the frame of dominant perceptions where we see the world as fixed, objective and ready-made for us to discover.

Full-spectrum superintelligence entails a seamless mastery of the formal and subjective properties of mind: Turing plus Shulgin. Do biological minds have a future?

Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology and the Knowing Subject by Hélène Mialet that deserves a spot on every Transhumanist’s bookshelf.

Intelligence is overrated.

Why doesn’t everyone get excited about transhumanism? Why aren’t all people fascinated by augmented and virtual reality, radical life-extension, brain-uploading, and The Singularity? This essay is the first in a series of articles, entitled “The Casual Transhuman” – it will examine H+ topics from the layman’s perspective and give suggestions on how transhumanists can spread their ideas without looking like crackpots to the world-at-large.

It seems to me that those who believe into the possibility of catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence act on the unquestioned assumption that intelligence is kind of a black box, a cornucopia that can sprout an abundance of novelty.

“Imagine a world where London is the world capital of transhumanism.” ~Bruce Sterling

All conflict arises from scarcity but scarcity won’t last forever, therefore it’s wrong to base our actions on temporary conflict. We need to look wisely at the future and act accordingly. When everyone is aware of inevitable Post-Scarcity, we can all direct our efforts towards accelerating its arrival.

A Dialogue on Creativity, Radical Novelty, AGI, Physics and the Brain. The following dialogue, between two imaginary characters A and B, is my attempt to summarize the crux of the argument regarding the potential of computers for creativity,…

Ben Goertzel converses with Hugo de Garis on his transhumanist argument for the reality of a Creator.