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| Blog Name: | Transhuman Goodness |
| Url: | http://transhumangoodness.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | philosophy, singularity, futurism |
| Description: | Transhuman Goodness is Roko Mijic's virtual soapbox; on these pages you'll find posts about about emerging technologies, values, ethics and philosophy, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and a whole assortment of futurist topics. |
| Popularity: | 86 Followers |
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Initiation ceremony
Initiation Ceremony"Yes, I want to know," said Brennan."Know what, exactly?" whispered the figure.Brennan's face scrunched up in concentration, trying to visualize the game to its end, and hoping he hadn't blown it already; until finally he fell back on the first and last resort, which is the truth:"It doesn't matter," said Brennan, "the answer is still yes."A little meditation on intellectual honesty: whatever is true is
Initiation Ceremony"Yes, I want to know," said Brennan."Know what, exactly?" whispered the figure.Brennan's face scrunched up in concentration, trying to visualize the game to its end, and hoping he hadn't blown it already; until finally he fell back on the first and last resort, which is the truth:"It doesn't matter," said Brennan, "the answer is still yes."A little meditation on intellectual honesty: whatever is true is
Why the Fuss About Intelligence?
Part two in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic. New posts every Monday from November 16 to January 23. Last time, we took our first look at the concept of the technological singularity—a point in time when a genuinely smarter-than-human intelligence is developed—and saw that it is an old idea which has gained momentum and is more relevant today than ever before. Now we’ll look at why smarter than human in
Part two in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov and Roko Mijic. New posts every Monday from November 16 to January 23. Last time, we took our first look at the concept of the technological singularity—a point in time when a genuinely smarter-than-human intelligence is developed—and saw that it is an old idea which has gained momentum and is more relevant today than ever before. Now we’ll look at why smarter than human in
RokoMijic.com is up
My personal website is now up at:http://www.rokomijic.com/My website covers similar topics to this blog, but hopefully in a more "official" style. It currently hosts my report on AI and the Semantic Web that I spent the academic year 2008-2009 writing, and my essay on operads and the opetopes that I wrote for my final mathematics examination at Cambridge.I'm hoping to add more essays and preprints to the website as I complete them, including a preprint of a paper on evolutionary pressures on uploaded humans that I am currently writing.
My personal website is now up at:http://www.rokomijic.com/My website covers similar topics to this blog, but hopefully in a more "official" style. It currently hosts my report on AI and the Semantic Web that I spent the academic year 2008-2009 writing, and my essay on operads and the opetopes that I wrote for my final mathematics examination at Cambridge.I'm hoping to add more essays and preprints to the website as I complete them, including a preprint of a paper on evolutionary pressures on uploaded humans that I am currently writing.
Transhumanism, personal immortality and the prospect of technologically enabled utopia
We live in a universe that works on physical laws - simple rules that determine how quantum mechanical amplitude evolves over time. The universe is, at its lowest level, rather like a lego kit with a comparatively small number of bricks, or to put it another way, the universe is a lot like Conway's Game of Life. This surprising (and highly counterintuitive) fact has an even more surprising implication: there is no fundamental law that prevents us from improving our lives to arbitrarily high levels of personal well-being. There is no fundamental reason why we cannot create a utopia - to shape the little blocks that the universe is made out
We live in a universe that works on physical laws - simple rules that determine how quantum mechanical amplitude evolves over time. The universe is, at its lowest level, rather like a lego kit with a comparatively small number of bricks, or to put it another way, the universe is a lot like Conway's Game of Life. This surprising (and highly counterintuitive) fact has an even more surprising implication: there is no fundamental law that prevents us from improving our lives to arbitrarily high levels of personal well-being. There is no fundamental reason why we cannot create a utopia - to shape the little blocks that the universe is made out
Working on my website
I've been a little slow with posting lately, but there is a good reason: I'm busy writing a decent personal website. Expect a post on this in the next few days.
I've been a little slow with posting lately, but there is a good reason: I'm busy writing a decent personal website. Expect a post on this in the next few days.
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