by Dan | Sep 18, 2021 | Analysis of Film and Media, Managing the Transhuman Transition
Total Recall is a 1990 Schwarzenegger blockbuster that, until yesterday, I had never seen. The movie centers around the story of a construction worker who is treated by a company that claims to be able to “implant memories” of exciting or fulfilling...
by Dan | Dec 12, 2020 | Managing the Transhuman Transition
Can we do better than the state of nature? Or, rather, can we do better than nature herself? When it comes to the trajectory of intelligence itself, some humans seem to think that we can. From Goertzel’s ideas about decentralized artificial general intelligence...
by Dan | Nov 30, 2020 | Exploring the End Game
Defining the Term A utility-monster is Rober Nozak’s thought experiment about an entity who could be so happy as to outshine all possible happiness of all possible humans, and humans (by utilitarian logic) would be obligated to serve this monster – and...
by Dan | Aug 30, 2020 | Managing the Transhuman Transition
In the coming 20-30 years, I suspect we’ll enter a phase of the posthuman transition (what I refer to as “Phase 4”) where brain-machine interface technology (possibly in combination with VR, pharmacology, and nanotech) will facilitate better...
by Dan | May 4, 2020 | Amoral Solipsism, Exploring the End Game
The advancement of the sciences will, at some point in the decades of centuries ahead, lead humanity to a place where we can expand our cognition and sentience, and potentially build artificial general intelligences vastly beyond our own. Exactly how that transition...
by Dan | Mar 14, 2020 | Managing the Transhuman Transition
As human beings we are propelled by our varied hopes, our lives are in many ways driven by them. On the day-to-day, we hope to make the sale, to avoid traffic, to feel better after a good night’s sleep. In the context of our lifetime, we hope to finish our book,...
