I haven't seen the video yet as youtube is blocked from my work address. However, at first glance I would say this is nothing spectacular. Its what we've been ...
http://transumanar.com/index.php/site/google_and_the_red_queen_revised_an_essay_by_extropia_dasilva/ In this revised version of her 2008 article, Extropia...
I hope you do watch the video, Bruce. I think it's necessary in order to see the scale of what they have done. And I do agree, this is what we have all really...
Title: Swine flu, black swans, and Geneva-eating dragons Subtitle: Anders Sandberg on What statistics tells us we should (not) be worried about 2pm=4pm,...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8080630.stm Possibly not the strongest evidence for curcumin I have ever seen, but it is lovely to be able to bring you news...
Hi, Nevermind google waves. Have any of you taken a look at wolfram alpha? I tried a few random questions and got very good results. E.g. when is the next...
You have to ask it questions which can be turned into computations. Its not a search engine and its knowledge base doesn't cover that much yet. But just think...
The places left to join the Methuselah Foundation 300 are likely to be gone by the end of summer. If you have been toying with the idea of joining and haven't...
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/latest_events 27-28 June 2009 FHI are to hold a workshop and symposium on the economics and social impact of widespread weak cognition...
Call for Papers - Nietzsche and European Posthumanisms Issue 20(1) of the Journal of Evolution and Technology contains Stefan Sorgner's article "Nietzsche, the...
I read this article, and my first thought was that he just doesn't get it. I can't really comment on Nietzche's Overman concept, never having read any of his...
I'm not sure we can, or should, explain too much about "PostHuman" to people who are not likely to understand it in detail. It really is the difference between...
... Hmm, and do *we* have that detail understanding? ... What do you really mean by that? Mice/men comparisons *sound* very impressive, but seem to lack...
2009/6/7 Anders Sandberg <asa@...> ... _____ I meant it literally. That the processing power of a PostHuman relative to us is likely to be at least the...
... Ah, so posthumans can acquire *enormous* amounts of cheese, and have negative length whiskers?! :-) ... Maybe [*]. But this doesn't tell us much, since...
2009/6/7 Anders Sandberg <asa@...> ... __________ Well, "PostHuman" says it - no longer Human. And I would define "Human" from the POV of mental and...
... Huh? How is this going to help? How do you distinguish mental and emotional capacity between individuals? We need something more concrete. For example,...
2009/6/7 Anders Sandberg <asa@...> ... __________ What does "desirable" or "good" mean to a PostHuman that can alter their own perceptions and internal...
Anyone got a large image of the WTA symbol, the 8-star? The old WTA site obviously only has the small logo. I'm doing a piece on Transhumanism and religion. ...
... Hmm, I have never seen any larger version of it. And I have a bit of an interest in it, since I made the first version (the Earth-chaosstar on my...
Do you have a larger copy of that as well? Dirk 2009/6/8 Anders Sandberg <asa@...> ... -- Homepage: www.neopax.com [Non-text portions of this message...
... http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/bilder/escaton.gif As I said here a long while ago, it was inspired by an illustration in _Kid Eternity_ by Grant Morrison and...
It was 2.5 years ago near enough. I'm finally doing the followup on it. Next step is to find out whether Morrison got it from MM or Chaos magick. I'm curious...
Fowarding Max's post: Nlogo1.tif Natasha Vita-More Natasha Vita-More, Aubrey de Grey, and I will be speaking at the Mexanexus Conference in July, engaging in...
I have been following Alpha's progress with interest. It has serious uses but also a lighter side. A Facebook friend that she'd been out in the sun and had...
Anyone know the background? http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6489149.ece Dirk -- Homepage: www.neopax.com [Non-text portions of this message...
... A quick look found this, http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?wo=1999005175 which seems to fit in with other webpages and a reference in Camden News ...
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