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recent bookmarks from jmTESCREAL2023-04-02T15:51:10+00:00
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jmtescreal transhumanism extropianism singularitarianism cosmism rationalism effective-altruism longtermismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:16d9d1aaa0bb/Why are transhumanists such dicks?2015-03-02T22:59:24+00:00
http://forum.biohack.me/discussion/753/why-are-transhumanists-such-dickss/p1
jm"I’ve been around and interviewed quite a lot of self-identified
transhumanists in the last couple of years, and I’ve noticed many of them
express a fairly stark ideology that is at best libertarian, and at worst
Randian. Very much “I want super bionic limbs and screw the rest of the world”.
They tend to brush aside the ethical, environmental, social and political
ramifications of human augmentation so long as they get to have their toys.
There’s also a common expression that if sections of society are harmed by transhumanist
progress, then it is unfortunate but necessary for the greater good (the greater
good often being bestowed primarily upon those endorsing the transhumanism).
That attitude isn’t prevalent on this forum at all – I think
the site tends to attract more practical body-modders than theoretical transhumanists
– but I wondered if anyone else here had experienced the same attitudes in
their own circles? What do you make of it?"
]]>transhumanism evolution body-modding surgery philosophy via:boingboing libertarianism society politicshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:209731e1fc4e/Roko's basilisk - RationalWiki2013-03-16T21:57:54+00:00
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
jmRoko's basilisk is notable for being completely banned from discussion on LessWrong, where any mention of it is deleted. Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder of LessWrong, considers the basilisk would not work, but will not explain why because he does not consider open discussion of the notion of acausal trade with possible superintelligences to be provably safe.
Silly over-extrapolations of local memes are posted to LessWrong quite a lot; almost all are just downvoted and ignored. But this one, Yudkowsky reacted to hugely, then doubled-down on his reaction. Thanks to the Streisand effect, discussion of the basilisk and the details of the affair soon spread outside of LessWrong. The entire affair is a worked example of spectacular failure at community management and at controlling purportedly dangerous information.
Some people familiar with the LessWrong memeplex have suffered serious psychological distress after contemplating basilisk-like ideas — even when they're fairly sure intellectually that it's a silly problem.[5] The notion is taken sufficiently seriously by some LessWrong posters that they try to work out how to erase evidence of themselves so a future AI can't reconstruct a copy of them to torture.[6]
]]>transhumanism funny insane stupid singularity ai rokos-basilisk via:maciej lesswrong rationalism superintelligences striesand-effect absurdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:850cff4cd891/Scrapheap Transhumanism2011-11-23T21:17:10+00:00
http://hplusmagazine.com/2010/02/11/scrapheap-transhumanism/
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