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 | Apr 14, 2019 | Amoral Solipsism, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration
Rich in tradition and material wealth, Japan’s reclusive youths are often completely uninterested in sex, relationships, or work. The country’s youth – especially men – are seeking escape from the job and romance market. Video game addiction...
by Dan | Mar 11, 2019 | Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration
The human race has two critical questions to answer in the 21st century: 1. What is a beneficial transition beyond humanity? 2. How do we get there from here without destroying ourselves? These questions presuppose the following hypotheses: Humanity will likely...
by Dan | Mar 3, 2019 | Exploring the End Game, Managing the Transhuman Transition
Many renown technology pundits, entrepreneurs, and inventors have posited a similar vision of an artificial intelligence-enabled future: Artificial intelligence and other future technologies will amass tremendous wealth in the hands of a few powerful, dominant...
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 development of intelligence and sentience. 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 intelligence and...
by Dan | May 28, 2018 | Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Creating or Enhancing Consciousness, Digitized and Digested, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
Human nature has always been to gain control over the physical world — both in maximizing its output for our benefit (farming, mining, etc), and in lessening the risks it poses to human life and wellbeing (medicine, construction, etc). This same drive for control...
