01.05.07
Al Fin Longevity (Blog)
Al Fin Longevity (Blog): (»Primary interest is seeing that the best of humanity survives long enough to reach the next level.«)
Blog with a lot of links and videos about life extension.
Secondhand Smoke (Blog: Wesley J. Smith)
Secondhand Smoke: (»This WEB log considers issues involving assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)«)
Give Me That New Transhumanist Religion: (»Transhumanism is, in my view, a branch of scientism, that is, a quasi religion that seeks to use science in ways for which the great method is not meant. Here’s a little proof. A transhumanist named Giulio Prisco is optimistic about the future of the great post human movement.»)
With a comment from Giulio Prisco.
Wesley J. Smith is a slasher of transhumanism. Senior Fellow Discovery Institute (Thinktank).
01.03.07
James Hughes: Träumen mit Diderot
Telepolis [02.01.2007]:
James Hughes: Träumen mit Diderot
(»Der Gedanke der Aufklärung, dass wir uns eine bessere Zukunft erschaffen können, ist noch jung und hat noch immer überall auf der Welt zündende Wirkung.
Die Anfänge der Aufklärung liegen im 17. Jahrhundert. Seither haben ihre Ideen immer wieder Kämpfe um religiöse Toleranz, Freiheit der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Demokratie und persönliche Freiheit ausgelöst. Noch heute wird um Aufklärung und Fortschritt gerungen, und das Schlachtfeld hat mittlerweile sogar unsere Keimzellen und Neuronen erreicht. [...]«)
01.01.07
Transfigurism News
Transfigurism News (“is provided by the Mormon Transhumanist Association, an international nonprofit organization that promotes charitable and working faith in physical salvation, as outlined in the Mormon Transhumanist Affirmation. We are affiliated with the World Transhumanist Association and support the Transhumanist Declaration. Although we are neither a religious organization nor affiliated with any religious organization, we support our members in their personal religious affiliations, and encourage them to adapt Transhumanism to their unique situations.”)
12.31.06
Overcoming Bias (Blog)
Overcoming Bias: (“How can we better believe what is true? While it is of course useful to seek and study relevant information, our minds are full of natural tendencies to bias our beliefs via overconfidence, wishful thinking, and so on. Worse, our minds seem to have a natural tendency to convince us we that are aware of and have adequately corrected for such biases, when we have done no such thing.
In this forum we discuss whether and how we might avoid this fate, by spending a bit less effort on each specific topic, and a bit more effort on the general topic of how to be less biased. Here we discuss common patterns of bias and self-deception, statistical and other formal analysis tools, computational and data-gathering aids, and social institutions which may discourage bias and encourage its correction. Other topics may be discussed to the extent they exemplify important biases and correction issues.
This forum is brought to you by the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, and consists of posts and comments on posts. We allow open comments on most posts, but are selective about who can post.”)
12.30.06
David Brin: Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism about the Human Future
(»David Brin
Singularities and Nightmares: Extremes of Optimism and Pessimism about the Human Future
By Lifeboat Foundation Scientific Advisory Board member David Brin, Ph.D.
OVERVIEW
In order to give you pleasant dreams tonight, let me offer a few possibilities about the days that lie ahead — changes that may occur within the next twenty or so years, roughly a single human generation. Possibilities that are taken seriously by some of today’s best minds. Potential transformations of human life on Earth and, perhaps, even what it means to be human.
For example, what if biologists and organic chemists manage to do to their laboratories the same thing that cyberneticists did to computers? Shrinking their vast biochemical labs from building-sized behemoths down to units that are utterly compact, making them smaller, cheaper, and more powerful than anyone imagined. Isn’t that what happened to those gigantic computers of yesteryear? Until, today, your pocket cell phone contains as much processing power and sophistication as NASA owned during the moon shots. People who foresaw this change were able to ride this technological wave. Some of them made a lot of money. [...]«)
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club (Blog: Russell Blackford)
Metamagician and the Hellfire Club: (»I am an Australian writer, philosopher, and critic. I am currently a graduate student and sessional lecturer in the School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University. As a creative writer, I specialise in science fiction and fantasy. Some examples are my Terminator trilogy and and my recent novel, Kong Reborn … a sequel to the original King Kong movie. My non-fiction work frequently deals with issues involving the human, or posthuman, future. I am interested in the ethics, and possible regulation, of emerging technologies, and the future of religion, morality, art, literature, political organisation, and human nature itself. I have a particular interest in the history and current state of the science fiction genre – and where it may be headed. Some of my articles are available on my web site. My formal qualifications include First Class Honours degrees in Arts and Law, a Ph.D on the supposed return to myth in contemporary literature, and a Master of Bioethics degree. I’m now completing a second Ph.D (in philosophy); this may seem extravagant, but I have my reasons!«)
Andart (Blog: Anders Sandberg)
Andart – (»Another lobe of Anders Sandberg’s distributed brain: essays on technology, science and the human condition.«)
Present Day Views of My Posthuman Past (Blog: Charles Anderson)
Present Day Views of My Posthuman Past: (»Not so random musings about our present state and our future fate.«)
Accelerating Future (Blog: Michael Anissimov)
Accelerating Future: (»Futurism! Science! Excitement! Fun!«)
Transumanar (Blog: Giulio Prisco)
(“Transumanar is a transhumanist blog – online magazine on science, politics and culture, edited by Giulio Prisco. See Introduzione (Italiano) and About (English).
Transumanar is meant as a transhumanist reference in the Italian cultural and media world, an accessible website to explain the transhumanist worldview and our opinions on the important scientific, cultural, social and political trends of our time.
Italian is the main language, but some articles meant for a wider audience are in English.
Transumanar does not wish to propose a monolithic view of transhumanist thinking but, on the contrary, covers different points of view.”)
12.29.06
Our Technological Future (Blog: Jan-Willem Bats)
Our Technological Future: (“About upcoming technologies such as nanotechnology/molecular manufacturing, artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotechnology. All of these are accelerating exponentially. The implications are vast.”)
UPWINGER – News from The Singularity (Blog)
UPWINGER – News from The Singularity: (“Daily human social developments including political, economic and global events forecast by Buckminster Fuller, RCW Ettinger, FM 2030, Ray Kurzweil and other early “upwingers,” transhumanists and singularitarians.”)
Sentient Developments George P. Dvorsky’s Blog
Sentient Developments: (“Transhumanist and technoprogressive perspectives on science, philosophy, ethics, and the future of intelligent life.”)
Cyborg Democracy (Blog: James Hughes)
Cyborg Democracy (“is a nexus for techno-progressives, transmitting a sexy, high-tech vision of a radically democratic future.”)
Danila Medvedev – Technology, science, communism, transhumanism (Blog)
Transhumanism promotion (Wiki)
Transhumanism promotion: (»The idea for this project emerged when I realised how poorly the spreading of transhumanist memes is organised (see Status quo). First I thought about preparing a small “teaching manual” or “brainwashing manual” that would be helpful for fellow transhumanists to “convert” their friends and even strangers. Then I realised that there are more unanswered questions related to promotion of H+. Even if nobody else contributes, I will be gradually dumping here my ideas and copypasting selected ideas of others. But it doesn’t have to be just me alone. By all means, if you have something to say, go ahead and add your ideas.«)
Extropy Institute
Extropy Institute (“Extropy Institute (ExI) has grown from a groundbreaking futurist organization to a worldwide incubator for solutions. Having spent the last 15 years building the grid for transhumanity, ExI is now moving forward in designing the means for resolving technological and cultural issues of transhumanity. ExI’s approach is to design thinking systems and solutions for the future that affect everyone around the world. Extropy Institute is a networking organization which advocates the Proactionary Principle in addressing social issues. Extropy Institute does not support any one political agenda.”)
World Transhumanist Association
World Transhumanist Association (“The World Transhumanist Association is an international nonprofit membership organization which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. We support the development of and access to new technologies that enable everyone to enjoy better minds, better bodies and better lives. In other words, we want people to be better than well. “)
Russian Transhumanist Movement
Russian Transhumanist Movement (“The Russian Transhumanist Movement was organised in December 2003 with the goal of readying the Russian society for the emergence of transhumanist technologies. Since then the members of the Movement has participated in several scientific conferences, presenting papers on different aspects of transhumanism. The Movement is promoted at related seminars with immortalist and transhumanist materials distributed.”)
Asociatión Transhumanista
Asociatión Transhumanista (Spanish webpage in Spanish for the transhumanist groups in Latin America and Spain.)
Betterhumans > Create the Future™
Betterhumans > Create the Future™ (“Betterhumans helps people understand, anticipate and create the future. Through the production and aggregation of informative and provocative editorial and the creation and application of enabling communications technology, Betterhumans aims to get more people thinking about and discussing the future, inspire people into assuming a proactive and participatory role in its creation and build, lead and support a community of informed forward thinkers.”)
Immortality Institute
Immortality Institute (“Main Mission: The mission of ImmInst is to conquer the blight of involuntary death. Umbrella Organization ImmInst shall function as an umbrella organization to help its members succeed in working towards the possibility of human physical immortality. This Institute shall serve as a platform for the exhibition, exchange, debate, and creation of concepts and methods toward that end as well as to disseminate any and all relevant information for the purpose of human physical immortality.”)
Life Extension Foundation – Highest Quality Vitamins And Supplements
Life Extension Foundation – Highest Quality Vitamins And Supplements (“The Life Extension Foundation is a nonprofit organization, whose long-range goal is the radical extension of the healthy human lifespan. In seeking to control aging, our objective is develop methods to enable us to live in health, youth and vigor for unlimited periods of time. The Life Extension Foundation was officially incorporated in 1980, but the founders have been involved in antiaging research since the 1960′s. “)
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