... Danger, Will Robinson!! Do you really want the Banana and Cucumber Curvature Regulators to start deciding what is 'best practice' regarding human...
... ... <a bunch of modest ideas (SL2, maybe?)> LMAO. "far-reaching". Right. Love that "Nevertheless..". IOW, they're still a bunch of nutjobs! In Summary:...
... OK, the worst case: A european enhancement institute WILL become a bureaucratic quagmire AND playground for bioconservatives. Politicians will still not...
... really understand it, and think that transhumanists are nutters. I've talked with the principal author, and I would say he takes us more seriously than...
I am reading the report, which is boring like hell. Actually, I have just given up. Some interesting transhumanist ideas, but watered down and hidden below...
... In this month's UK edition of Wired magazine, the 'Data we Love' section (printed in annoyingly small text along the bottom of pages) features some...
... I agree with James Hughes about the authors of the report. I've read some other stuff they've written and listened to a presentation, and they are most...
The rat as a vector for pathogen transmission, with a delayed death surely? With the real cause of death being no or inadequate medical treatment... It would...
... I suspect that your 'challenge' is equivalent to persuading Microsoft to start using Open-Source licencing. I don't have any proposals for what to do....
Rats!? Christ aloud... Only last year I was renting a room in North London which had become over-run with very agressive rats. It decended in short order into...
Get a cat - big unfriendly aggresive Tom. Swap the rats for being pissed on and getting fleas. No reports in the list of death by cat. Dirk ... -- Homepage:...
I have a much better solution to avoid all these fates that befall young men in England – I moved to France! Greg Get a cat - big unfriendly aggresive Tom. ...
I hope anyone reading this will appreciate that its not all uploading and cryonics here, practical strategies for contemporary problems get dealt with too! ...
... This debate is always going on in political movements. The pragmatists try to do real politics, which will involve compromising, conforming with structures...
The nice thing about Transhumanism, especially the UKTA, is that there is no "party line", so we each do what we think is best and we don't get excommunicated...
... I am not discouraging pointing out problems, on the contrary. I think pointing out problems with an idea is very useful. It can help you take these...
... I like the good old extropian principles (BEST DO IT SO!) - dynamical optimism (things can become much better, so you have reason to act) is a key element...
2009/7/7 Anders Sandberg <asa@...> ... Radicals drag the Overton Window. ... Suggestion for something to do right now that might be both saleable and ...
Is it yet possible to create whole human ova from skin cells?. I thought I heard something about such experiments in a year or two ago. Thanks, Paul....
... As transhumanists we point out things like the omega point theory or law of accelerating returns, although this does not mean we are driving such forces...
http://www.nature.com/stemcells/2007/0706/070607/full/stemcells.2007.6.html I believe it has been done in mice. I could not find the one in human, although I...
References Takahashi K. & Yamanaka S. Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors. Cell 126,...
Just to add to Stuart's post, if anyone feels like being useful, it's really much easier than you might think, provided you're willing to put in the time. In...
... What do we want? I think we can sum up our aims as 1) ensure that humanity has a big, open-ended future filled with desirable possibilities, and 2) ...
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