by Dan | Oct 21, 2018 | Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Exploring the End Game, Glossary, Managing the Transhuman Transition
The “Grand Trajectory” refers to the direction of the development of intelligence and sentience itself. If the following two hypotheses are true: The moral worth of an entity can be measured – as best we can – by the richness of its...
by Dan | Sep 16, 2018 | Glossary, Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual
Alexander the Great had enough time in his 32 years to accomplish many objectives. Defeating the Persian empire, conquering the Hellenic world and large swaths of India, and so on. Succession planning, as it turns out, hadn’t been much a priority for the...
by Dan | Aug 27, 2018 | Glossary, The Good Must Be Explored
“The Wisest Cricket” is a term used in jest (and absurdism) to refer to the human attempt to understand the universe and their place in it. The term is intended to refer to the absurdity of thinking that humans can ever acquire wisdom or genuine, complete...
by Dan | Aug 27, 2018 | Glossary, Managing the Transhuman Transition
The “Monkey Suit” is a term used in jest (and absurdism) to refer to the human form. As all humans are thrown into existence (Heidegger’s idea of Geworfenheit) without a say about their conditions, genetics, and surroundings, our existence is...
by Dan | Jul 15, 2018 | Digitized and Digested, Glossary
“Digitized and digested” is the future scenario which I consider to be a likely long-term future for humanity, should we survive the initial growing pains of the singularity. By long-term, I could mean 100 or 10,000 years – though the real timeframe...
by Dan | Jul 15, 2018 | Glossary
The “moral singularity” refers to how morality – a particular system of values and principles of conduct – will evolve radically once (a) human intelligence and cognition is enhanced, and (b) artificial general intelligence (AGI) enters the...
