More Than Human
Pursue a quest for intelligence on Earth, focus on solutions between AI capabilities and human potential.
To survive in the world we’ve made, AI must somehow be … More Than Human.
The Only Redemption Is Transcendence
Our legacy as a species can only be the creation of something more than human.
Our legacy as a species can only be the creation of something more than human.
Focus on solutions between AI capabilities and human potential to make intelligent choices.
Transhumanists are in charge of monitoring the risks of AI super-intelligence.
Consider the Transhumanist worldview — self-transformation, genetic modification, nootropic drugs, AI, crypto-libertarianism, and space exploration.
Extropians are libertarians, who believe in ‘polycentric / privately produced law and competing digital private currencies’.
To truly be free, the Extropians need to escape the meat sack of the body.
Cyborgs are the next step in evolution.
You cannot become an ubermensch … “by any magic trick or hokum, or by the power of wishful thinking, or by semantic acrobatics, meditation, affirmation, incantation, or by an act of parliament…[Only via] a reconfigured physical situation through technology.” — Nick Bostrom
Intelligence enhancement becomes much easier if we upload our consciousness into digital format.
Extropian Robin Hanson theorizes ‘whole brain emulation’, in which humanity will soon upload their consciousness.
An Extropian argument suggests that resources should be diverted away from flesh-and-blood humans and animals and towards digital selves to ‘maximize the greatest happiness of the greatest number’.
Nothing could be more important for this cognitive elite than to dedicate their time and resources to Rationalism / Long-Termism.
After some hard number crunching, the Effective Altruism movement decided the best thing for philanthropists to spend their money was…nerds thinking about Long-Termism and Existential Risk!
The ruling cultural code of Silicon Valley’s ultra-rich is a philosophy or religion of self-enhancement, psychedelics, genetic medicine, longevity /immortality, cryptocurrency, libertarianism, and space exploration.
‘What is Guilt in Utopia?’ asked Bostrom. ‘Guilt is our knowledge that we could have created Utopia sooner.’
A Difficult Issue For The Reality-Based Community: Elite Conspiracies Do Exist
Wealthy people hang out together and can use their wealth to do good or bad things.
The rich will have the same impacts on the world whether they party at Ted Talks or country clubs.
Of course, the rich discuss Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and Long-Termism regarding resource use overshoot, genocidal resource wars, global environmental degradation, mutating viruses, and climate change.
Why not?
They have the power and resources to act.
Watch them go!
