The Philosophy of Games and the Postwork Utopia
No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.
Category: Opinion
To Survive, We Must Go Extinct — Apocalyptic Terrorism and Transhumanism
Perhaps it’s time to figure out ways to redesign our cognitive architectures so that people are less likely to adopt faith-based, delusional thinking about how the world ought to be.
Envy of the Future
We often have negative views about the future, but perhaps that’s because we resent how good it might be.
Ray Kurzweil’s Double-Edged Absurdity
Technology isn’t a doubled-edged sword. At worst it is a 99% good sword and tiny 1% bad sword. Doubled-edged implies a 50/50 harm/goodness.
Opinion: Synthetic Biology — The True Savior of Mankind
Once we recognize that the current species are flawed, we will see that only by designing and introducing new species can suffering, poverty and the depletion of natural resources be stopped. Once we look at this option, we find already a perfect and ultimately moral solution to the threats of climate change, disease, overpopulation and the terrible scarcity giving rise to endless injustice and retaliatory terrorism.
Understanding Scarcity and Post-Scarcity
It’s frustrating when people insist we are already living in a Post-Scarcity civilization.
DISRUPTIVE EVOLUTION — Transhumanism and Survival of the Quickest
Is Transhumanism an exercise in Unnatural Selection?
Book Review: Body Drift: Butler, Hayles and Haraway (Posthumanities) by Arthur Kroker
Body Drift by Arthur Kroker, takes the work of three leading women thinkers as its main focus.
The Three Stages of Man (why Radical Life Extension cannot be achieved by everybody)
This essay is a personal view, distilled from over 30 years of studying aging and life extension at the scientific and clinical levels.This essay is a personal view, distilled from over 30 years of studying aging and life extension at the scientific and clinical levels.
Anti-GMO Activists Misuse Open Records Requests to Harass Scientists
Kevin Folta, a plant molecular biologist with the University of Florida’s (UF) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), became the target of a sweeping public records request from US Right to Know, an activist group that seeks to expose what it calls “the failures of the corporate food system,”