Can Singularity Critics Pass the Turing Test?
The Singularity is not science fiction or a quasi-religious view.
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Video Friday: Anders Sandberg – Eugene the Turing test-beating teenbot reveals more about humans than computers
Anders Sandberg is one of my favorite people in the transhumanist scene Anders. Here he discusses the recent overhyped report of a chatbot passing the Turing Test. Anders is one of the most rigorous thinkers in transhumanism and his paper...
Transcendence vs. Her: Clash of Two Wimpy Future Visions
My friend and sometime collaborator Hugo DeGaris was looking forward to the movie “Transcendence” with great enthusiasm… With its theme of anti-technology terrorists attacking scientists and provoking a sort of war between pro-Singularity and anti-Singularity forces, the movie plot reflects...
“The Transhumanist Wager” by Zoltan Istvan — review by Ben Goertzel
Zoltan Istvan’s recent SF novel “The Transhumanist Wager” is a fascinating exploration of a reasonably plausible near-term future in which transhumanist technologies become prevalent and impactful — but in a highly politically controversial way.
Humanity+ Membership – Move to Yearly Membership
With this in mind, we are offering the annual membership. Anyone who has current full membership can choose to continue their membership on a rolling month to month membership. All full members will still have the opportunity to vote on matters of Humanity+ governance.
Humanity+ @Melbourne May 5-6 2012
Ben Goertzel interviews Adam Ford about the upcoming Humanity+ @Melbourne (May 5-6 2012), which will feature Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More, Stelarc and many more inspiring speakers.
“I Feel Therefore I Am”
Dzmitry Tsetserukou, an assistant professor at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, was the big winner at first Augmented Human International Conference
We’re All Edge Cases
This is the most corrosive thing that happens to people who self-identify as science fiction fans
Humanity Plus: The New Synthesis
Lately, I love it when people out there in the general population ask me what I do. I tell them that I’m working on a transhumanist webzine and then pause — offering no further explanation — as if a transhumanist magazine were as comprehensible as a magazine about real estate or pet monkeys.
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h+ covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing — and will change — human beings in fundamental ways. We will be following developments in areas like NBIC (nano-bio-info-cog), longevity, performance enhancement and self-modification, Virtual Reality, "The Singularity," and other areas that both promise and threaten to radically alter our lives and our view of the world and ourselves.