What is Transhumanism? – the 3 Supers with David Pearce
David Pearce’s main focus is Super Well-being (or Superhappiness).
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Best of H+: Total Gender Change within a Decade
Recently I made a bet with a member of the Institute for Ethical and Emerging Technologies. That bet sounded to him like I was being wildly optimistic, and he jumped at it, thinking it was a sure bet that I would lose.
STELARC Performance – Outside of Your Skin
I recently had the pleasure of videoing Stelarc’s performance at West Space in Melbourne Australia – the performance was a fusion of virtual reality and meat space – it was a feast for the senses. I have embedded the video...
David Pearce – The Naturalisation of Heaven and the Hedonistic Imperative
Interviews with David Pearce who is a British utilitarian philosopher who believes and promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life.
Best of H+: The Reluctant Transhumanist
Singularity, 2012: God springs out of a computer to rapture the human race… The “God” of Singularity Sky is really just an Artificial Intelligence, manipulating us all merely to beat the alien competition. The Merchant Princes (from a series of novels by Stross) are just as rapacious as anything on Wall Street, and a downstream parallel universe is just another market to exploit.
Into the Deep Blue Yonder – Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence Amplification
Adam Ford interviews Tim van Gelder on Intelligence Amplification, Artificial Intelligence, Argument Mapping and Douglas Engelbart’s contributions to computing and user interface design and collective wisdom.
Best of H+: Dancing at the End of Time
Michael Moorcock, creator of iconic characters…has been freaking us out for over forty years…The godfather of New Wave sci-fi, Moorcock was writing steampunk thirty years before Gibson and Sterling’s The Difference Engine, and anticipated posthuman themes a full generation before the World Transhumanist Association formed.
Reward Function Integrity in Artificially Intelligent Systems
Video and abstract of Roman’s presentation at Oxford University. Analysis of historical examples of wireheading in man and machine and evaluate a number of approaches proposed for dealing with reward-function corruption. While simplistic optimizers driven to maximize a proxy measure for a particular goal will always be a subject to corruption, sufficiently rational self-improving machines are believed by many to be safe from wireheading problems.
Global Futures Congress – June 15-16 2013
The 2045 Initiative is organized around a roadmap, projects, research labs and progress.