I'm feeling quite optimistic. OK, also apocalyptic, but kind of apoco-optimist. Remember I'm no M-Ler, or Trot, but perhaps on May Day we can remember this...
http://ieet.org EMERGENCE Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies News for May 1, 2008 Editor: Dr. James J. Hughes ________________________________ ...
Thank you for making this open to the uninitiated. Because nothing warms people to you like pointing out their mistakes: - Amenfd the UNDHR and UN Genome...
I agreee completely. I was going to suggest that, but I assumed GM support was implicit. But GM food must be a point fro tp politics, we need to say loud and...
What about the intersection of law and VR? I'm not very knowledgeable in this area (I'm not even on Second Life) so I'm just throwing this one on the table....
I was part of an interesting conversation of late on the topic of AGIs and slavery. While everyone agreed that a true AGI should have the same freedoms that a...
... Hi Michael, I'm not convinced that utilitarian liscences happy slave robots, at least not more so than it does with genetically engineered human happy ...
... happy ... morally ... of ... should ... I agree with you completely. I used Utilitarianism in its simplest incarnation, one which almost no one uses as...
I think this is a key question. It is one of the questions that has convinced me we need a more robust theory of the dynamic personality (or range of dynamic...
In light of the growing concern over fundamentalism across the globe I found myself exploring Belief and Faith and why I never possessed these traits as they...
Interesting problem for me in defining the transhumanist/technoprogressive worldview is specifying how exactly atheism and scientific materialism relate to it....
When J wakes up on the UU/materialist-Buddhist side of his bed, I think he's probably acknowledging the benefits of membership in a community of like-minded...
I agree with Mike that there is a parallelism, sometimes conflicting, sometimes complementary, sometimes converging, between ideas and traditions of spiritual...
While, I believe that Dawkins is himself foolish in painting Religion with such broad strokes, I can't help but see an unsurpassable divide between "people of...
Risks there certainly are. (Am I sounding like Yoda here?) Like James, I have great hopes for the neurotheological investigation of brain mechanisms behind...
I'm glad you mentioned Sam Harris. Alone among the "new atheists", Harris has managed to highlight the negativities of traditional religion while also focusing...
While I agree that it would be best to keep religion out of the TP Policy Program, the take-home message of my first post wasn't primarily religious in nature....
A completely libertarian approach could open the door to an unhealthy competition among various ideological factions to see who could produce the largest...
I found that article laughable in its finger-wagging simplicity. He seemed to be projecting a caricature of western society into a future where zero-sum is...
Yes, Mr. Thiel's not just a libertarian, but a conservative political activist with classic extropian rhetoric, and a back-roller of conservative causes in...
AlterNet Will Democracy Make You Happy? By Eric Weiner, Foreign Policy Posted on May 8, 2008, Printed on May 8, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/84747/ To...
... May I make a suggestion, for the site as well as the list? I'm new to techno-progressivism, and I think a reading list explaining both the transhumanist...
... I'm trying not to answer most of the things I see on the list, as I'm not sure I'm really the person to be ON this list, but this one I can speak to. I...
