Future of the human race not good enough?
Glad to see you found Less Wrong and IEET.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
a lot of it is currently over my head.
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Yeah, it's going to take me a long time to become comfortable with the transhumanist vocabulary, hopefully Nubblies can help.
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Originally Posted by Ugly Bastard
The singularity is already happening. Humans are being integrated by technology. It's a manifestation of us, not a separate thing.
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I think there is a difference between integrating with technology and Kurzweil's Singularity, interested in what you mean by manifestation instead of seperate, you were tweeter friends with Michael Anissimov for a while right? how did you find him?
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Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde
Humans create machines that have gained sentience and are more intelligent than their creators.
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I don't think this can happen, binding problem/hard problem of conciousness may mean that the best we can get is a
Philosophical zombie - Lesswrongwiki
Link dump,
The Biointelligence Explosion
The Reproductive Revolution: selection pressure in a Post-Darwinian World
Supersentience
You Might Never Upload Your Brain Into a Computer
And the mother site:
The Hedonistic Imperative
Edit : more dumps, Adam Ford interviews a lot of the transhumanists
Adam Ford - YouTube
Colin Hales - Being & Consciousness is a good talk, I want to know more about AGI/AI