by Dan | Mar 16, 2018 | Analysis of Film and Media, Consciousness is What Counts, Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Exploring the End Game, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Managing the Transhuman Transition, Transhuman Transition
I’ve been cajoled into watching Netflix’s Black Mirror, and a friend of mine recommended watching the San Junipero episode next. As I mentioned in my last Black Morror reflection, and I didn’t plan on watching anything that wasn’t worth 40...
by Dan | Jan 14, 2018 | Analysis of Film and Media, Facilitating Post-human Transition Collaboration, Morality as Arbitrary and Contextual
I don’t watch fiction, and I don’t read fiction, almost as a rule. While I respect it as a medium, and consider it valuable in fleshing out future scenarios that humanity should consider (which David Brin referred to as “finding quicksand” in...