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QUIT/CONTINUE: HOW VIDEO GAMES MIGHT SHAPE THE FUTURE OF WORK | transhumanity.net
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The future of humanity now. QUIT/CONTINUE: HOW VIDEO GAMES MIGHT SHAPE THE FUTURE OF WORK. For example, imagine there was a job at a sweet factory that entailed standing at a conveyer belt and sorting sweets, ones in a red wrapper into one box, those in blue wrappers in another box. Would you do that job for no pay? I suspect a lot of companies would consider play and fun and games to be counterproductive in the workplace. THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT WORK AND PLAY. So that leaves tacit work, which is defined ...
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The future of humanity now. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. On October 14-15, 2016, the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness in conjunction with the NYU Center for Bioethics will host a conference on The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence . Speakers and panelists will include: Nick Bostrom (Future of Humanity Institute), Meia Chita-Tegmark (Future of Life Institute), Mara… Continue Reading →. Human By Design Conference in NYC – Aug. Exosphere Academy Scholarship Program. EFTF is a tech conf...
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NO to blanket bans on Genetically Modified crops (press) | transhumanity.net
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The future of humanity now. NO to blanket bans on Genetically Modified crops (press). TRANSHUMANIST PARTY PRESS RELEASE. NO TO BLANKET BANS ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS. Why the Scottish ban on GM is bad for Scotland and the UK. We acknowledge that sometimes the business of trading in GM crops is not approached ethically (e.g. encouraging reliance on a few large companies for seed every season), so greater and more carefully considered regulation of GM crop business is warranted. The use of ...Party lea...
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How Should the Concept of God Evolve in the Future? | transhumanity.net
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The future of humanity now. How Should the Concept of God Evolve in the Future? According to the Wikipedia entry on major religious groups , 85% of the world’s population subscribes to some kind of religion. While in reality the world is obviously not divided neatly into religious and non-religious , and while religion and theism are not quite the same thing, this statistic nevertheless shows that the various concepts of the divine continue to hold considerable sway over human thought. August 3, 2015.
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VR: It’s More Than Just Games | transhumanity.net
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The future of humanity now. VR: It’s More Than Just Games. Flying cars. Hotels in space. Robotic sexual partners. Some technologies seem destined to remain vaporware: Great ideas in theory which never seem to become practical, widespread products. But next year could be the year in which we tick at least one much-anticipated item off of the list. Finally, we may be getting virtual reality. In this essay we shall take a look at some of the ways VR has been used. LEARNING ABOUT OURSELVES IN VR. But, no mat...
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Extreme Futures Tech Fest – Fall 2015 | transhumanity.net
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The future of humanity now. Extreme Futures Tech Fest – Fall 2015. Unrecognizable woman holding wearable gadget. New technologies. Wireless tools. Future communications and social media concept. Transhumanity.net in partnership with The Foundation. Saturday, October 17, 2015 from 8:00 AM to 7:00 PM (PDT). Extreme Futures Tech Fest Fall 2015. Volunteer now for staff, we need. Help running and managing. The conference the day of. 10 minute presentation) on a related topic. Speakers Line Up So Far. Notify m...
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Emergence, Reduction & Artificial Intelligence | transhumanity.net
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The future of humanity now. Emergence, Reduction & Artificial Intelligence. The concept of emergence is controversial to some – for example Eliezer Yudkowski, who favors reductionism, wrote a critique at Less Wrong (see link below). Do reductionists often dismiss emergence? Ben formalized emergence in his book ‘The Evolving Mind’ as patterns that appear when you put two or more things together that are not there in any of the individual parts. EMERGENCE and ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Extract: “The im...
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The future of humanity now. So how can I learn more about transhumanism or explore transhumanism? Transhumanity.net is about transhumanism as a whole and helping people connect with transhumanism. That being the case the following are misc and not necessarily related sites that are focused on specific area’s of transhumanism or are related to transhumanism. Http:/ www.transhumanism.org/. 8211; The World Transhumanist Association. 8211; The Life Boat Foundation. Http:/ www.singularityweblog.com/. On The E...
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From Human to Transhuman | transhumanity.net
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The future of humanity now. From Human to Transhuman. In the history of critical thought, the human issue has come and gone. As such, it was absent from the pre-Socratics cosmological period, having to wait for Socrates and the Sophists. So that humans became an object of thought as social beings, because back then, Prometheus had stolen the fire from the Gods. Overwhelmed by the results from the new sciences, a German philosopher in the beginning of the 20th century, Max Scheller, used for the very firs...
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Stoicism in the Post-Singularity Future | transhumanity.net
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The future of humanity now. Stoicism in the Post-Singularity Future. De Mente Artificiosa et Philosophia: Stoicism in the Post-Singularity Future By Steven Umbrello and Tina Forsee. Futurists like Ray Kurzweil. Believe that advancements in the field of artificial intelligence will culminate to a point in the near future to allow humans to transcend their biological form. This is what he calls the Singularity and he describes it as follows:. We make no predictions here except one: Humans will remain essen...
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