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Machines to Run Society?

Many people have an aversion to automated machines and computers running things.

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Drone Music

To voluntarily perform or be audience to an infinitely long piece of "utopian" ambient drone music (a la Rod Modell's track Ultraviolet World from the Incense & Black Light album) that never began, but has always been playing, as will it continue forever. Thus, the decision to play and listen to this music will always regress ahead of infinity back from a set point; the decision reaches back in an infinity longer than the infinity of the duration of the piece at any given moment...the opp

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Added by Adam James Davis on May 15, 2010 at 5:35pm — No Comments

Transovine

If the well-known glorification of the lion is darwinian, then the glorification of the sheep is post-darwinian. I find beauty in the herbivorous and content indifference of the sheep, an indifference disturbed by the predatory threat of such creatures as the overrated lion. And so transovinism, the radical reduction of such disturbances for a full life of blissful and disease-free grass-munching via a nanotechnological barrier as infallable as possible surrounding such a welfare state. Such a b… Continue

Added by Adam James Davis on May 12, 2010 at 5:30am — No Comments

Finity, parts I + II

Try to imagine a situation in which all that exists ever is a pure sphere. Do you have an image in your mind of a sphere in a void, a sphere surrounded by infinite darkness? If so, try to purge that, for the nothingness is still something else. I did say, after all, just a sphere. A completely finite existence...a sphere not even surrounded by nothingness, a sphere not even in a vacuum. Just a sphere. Such is the bizarre nature of finity, up there with the paradoxes, self-references and Grand

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Vibra-utopian

On a planet, you are warming your wet hands underneath a hand-dryer where you then rest your weary forehead on it's plastic case. The warmth and the gentle vibrations onto your skull stimulate blood flow; it is very nice. The planet unexpectedly explosed, and you automatically adapt. The mechanical shockwaves, gravity waves and electromagnetic emissions, across the orders of magnitude, are still cosy like a quietly humming beacon of soft light in a vibrating case.

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Added by Adam James Davis on March 9, 2010 at 4:59pm — No Comments

So here I am on yet another Social Network

It would be really wonderful if my network of friends from Facebook could be imported and intersected with the members here to build my friend network here. Does anyone know of an effort to do such a thing? Is there a rich enough API in both networks (and others) to hack up a reasonable rough attempt? It gets rather old running the same process with some ad hoc variations on each network. I know we all have better things to do with our time. Continue

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"No current system..."

"No current system reflects the depth and breadth of what the future needs." - Natasha Vita-More Not only what the future needs, but also what the past needs. Would not such objectives as the abolition of extreme involuntary suffering be in vain given the amount of said suffering had, and yet to happen, on the way to such a development, if ever? Of course, we may very well need to help the future first in order to then help the past. A better life not just for our children, but for our ancestor… Continue

Added by Adam James Davis on January 12, 2010 at 5:31pm — No Comments

Digital Evolution

In the future, the success of life within a programmed reality will rely on coherent and flexible streams of code duplicating and mutating in much the same way that our DNA does now. Whether the mechanics of these mutations are driven by our own consciousness or by the will of machines that we will have given prior instruction remains to be seen... Read more Continue

Added by James Sargeant on January 3, 2010 at 2:45pm — No Comments

Sources For Transhumanism and Futurism Related Lectures

Lectures from Humanity Plus UK - http://www.youtube.com/user/KoanPhilosopher Futurism & AI Related Videos - http://vimeo.com/jeriaska Future of Humanity Institute Lectures - http://vimeo.com/user1646158 Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence - http://www.vimeo.com/siai Feel free to add to the list. Continue

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Astral Projection

When we start to fully immerse ourselves in self-engineered virtual realities, the initial shock of having access to an entirely different set of programmable parameters may be too much for many... Read more Continue

Added by James Sargeant on November 27, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Ancient Thoughts

It would be perfectly reasonable to assume that extropian and transhumanist concerns are very recent manifestations in the timeline of philosophical thought. It would be reasonable to conclude that such concerns can only have been born out of the collision between 20th/21st century technological developments, post-industrial infrastructure and the captivating imaginations of science fiction writers who saw this stuff from miles off (and didn't need to give any rationale to their hypotheses). Re… Continue

Added by James Sargeant on November 13, 2009 at 8:22am — No Comments

Homo radius

Transmit yourself into the aether. Swim in the ocean of background hiss. Into the reverberance of the universe, Boost and amplify your personhood. Onto the periods around you, Imprint your harmonics. Radiate your bliss and benevolence on all bands, On all octaves. You are the antenna, The beacon. Homo radius... H~ Continue

Added by Adam James Davis on October 31, 2009 at 7:19pm — 2 Comments

Involuntary

I am not voluntarily writing this. I am not voluntarily contemplating the concepts that led me to Involuntarily write the first statement. I am not voluntarily acknowledging the above, Nor this penultimate sentence. I am not voluntarily accepting the Involuntary nature of all of this. ~ Bonus: ""One can not be both A and B" I am both A and B, Whilst that rule still applies, infinitely." Continue

Added by Adam James Davis on October 24, 2009 at 4:17am — 3 Comments

H-

Transhumanism, thus cishumanism. H+, thus H-. As uplifting, so voluntary downlifting. The potential desirability of infinite ignorance; of being a blissful vegetable in a post-Darwinian world. Inspired by the pinprick argument in negative utilitarianism, would it be unethical to grant life initially? Taking life as unethical, and yet to create life is to grant that life the opportunity to be terminated and to experience suffering. Thus, creating life as just as, if not more, unethical than taki… Continue

Added by Adam James Davis on October 18, 2009 at 4:50am — 1 Comment

The Collaborations

I can imagine a point in time, in the not-to-distant future when instead of talking about Corporations people will talk about "Collaborations". Networks of like minded people that get together via collaboration software, and with the help of expert systems, and perhaps a neural prosthesis or two to solve problems or to create works of art or build software or anything else of mutual interest. I suspect that Collaborations will attain greater-than-human intelligence much earlier than AIs will, an… Continue

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