13 month ago
deusx : Vestigial Organs Seem Ripe for Transhumanist Tweaks - "A lot of transhumanist types focus on replacing perfectly good body parts with even better ones, ..., but it seems to me we ought to start by dropping some of our vestigial organs in favor of something more useful, or at least more classy."
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21 month ago
deusx : What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen - Here are the "slides" for my talk at Seminars about Long-Term Thinking, 15 February 2007.
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21 month ago
deusx : YouTube - I am the very model of a Singularitarian - "Charlie Kam has written and recorded a humorous Singularitarian version of Gilbert & Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major General," from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera, "The Pirates of Penzance.""
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25 month ago
deusx : Ray Kurzweil: Computers Will Extend Human Lifespan - VARBusiness - "In just 15 years, we'll begin to see the merger of human and computer intelligence that ultimately will enable people to live forever. At least that's the prediction of author and futurist Ray Kurzweil."
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46 month ago
deusx : Globetechnology: Computer scientist Kurzweil aims to live forever - '"Death is a tragedy," a process of suffering that rids the world of its most tested, experienced members ? people whose contributions to science and the arts could only multiply with agelessness, he said.'
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