- On Singularity
politics
transhumanism
futurism
One of the defining concepts of transhumanist philosophical discussion is the notion of a Singularity. The meaning of this term, in common parlance, has come to be associated with one primary notion - an AI superintelligence exponentially improving itself and technology, either to technological utopia or skynet death machine scenario, depending on various factors or whoever happens to be discussing it.
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- Introduction to Transhumanism
transhumanism
politics
It is fairly common for people to ask the question, “what is transhumanism?”, especially to me as a transhumanist. And it can be difficult to answer for a lot of people, and more difficult when there are conflicting definitions and an awful number of people who think transhumanism is as simple as sucking up to techbro billionaires who have suborned the idea of more general futurism (as you can tell, I have contempt for this attitude and consider it a horrific stifling of appreciation for the liberatory potential of transhumanist movements).
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