by Dan | Jan 20, 2020 | Managing the Transhuman Transition
The future of AI in dating isn’t about finding better “matches” on online apps. The impact of AI and emerging tech on dating will ultimately lead to a transhuman condition where “love” as we know it is hardly pursued at all. Dating (more...
by Dan | Oct 12, 2019 | Managing the Transhuman Transition, The Good Must Be Explored
[If that title comes across as shocking or offensive, bear with me. Before you make assumptions about my opinions on post-human morality and moral stratification, please read the article.] I was recently reading an article by Nayef Al-Rodhan called The Sustainable...
by Dan | Sep 2, 2019 | Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
The transition from biological to non-biological will come in phases, and it will be driven by our own human drives. I’ve written about this at length back in 2014 in an essay called “Human Ideals Will Tear Us From Humanity”, but that essay only fleshed out the...
by Dan | Jul 28, 2019 | Discerning the Good Itself, Exploring the End Game
The following are assumptions that most of us hold as iron truths: Happiness is only made possible because of its opposite: Pain. Without pain, there is no real happiness. If anyone could ever experience continued pleasurable states (no pain), this would diminish all...
by Dan | Jul 11, 2019 | Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, The Good Must Be Explored
The following quote is as good an introduction to this article as I could ask for: “…he saw in Java a plain far as the eye could reach entirely covered with skeletons, and took it for a battlefield; they were, however, merely the skeletons of large...
by Dan | Jul 1, 2019 | Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition
I believe that it’s important to question the human-centric view of the future. In many parts of the world, humans are increasingly aware of their impact on future generations, on other animal species, and on the natural ecosystem that supports all life. Still, when...
