#transhuman — Public Fediverse posts

#TIL what #TESCREAL means. I'm impressed by the explanatory power of conceiving of this cluster of #ideologies as an #interconnected #aggregate which then get used to justify #harm

I feel like a lightbulb went on and that I understand the current state we're all in a bit better now.

Highly recommend starting with the @wikipedia article, which covers the #concept and some of the #criticism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

Thanks go to #Bhante #Sujato (https://sujato.me/) for making me aware of the term.

#transhumanism #extropianism #singularitarianism #singularity #cosmism #rationalism #effectiveAltruism #longtermism #transhumanist #transhuman #longnow #eugenics #AGI #utopia #utopianism #bigtech

How Do Angels Worship?

Not with harps.
Not always.
Sometimes
with teeth.

With wings held shut.
With eyes wide open.
With a thousand faces
turned toward
the unbearable.

They do not sing.
They tremble
in fearful quiet.

Holy.

A word like nails.
Driven once.
Again.
Again.

Holy.

The throne burns.
The floor breathes.
The pillars remember
every name
God has swallowed.

An angel kneels.
Or falls.

It is not always easy
to tell the difference.

Metallic wings drift
through the bright shadow 
of storms.

Each one
still listening.
Each one
afraid to land.

Holy.

Some cover their faces.
Some cover their feet.
Some have no faces.
Some have only mouths.

One opens.
The stars recoil.

One whispers.
A city wakes
with blood
on its doorposts.

Is this praise?
The silence
after thunder?
The sword
returned to flame?
The hand
that does not strike?

Holy.

They circle
what cannot be 
approached.

Nearer.
Nearer.
Never arriving.

Their worship
is orbit.
Their worship
is fever.
Their worship
is the long refusal
to look away.

And somewhere
beyond the burning,
one small angel
folds its wings,
leans into
the terrible light,
and patiently waits
for God
to breathe.

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Prescient vision of #TransHumanism

https://youtu.be/4x5YDCj-wiE?si=2kqzP9M-VZhFfXnG

#music #Mood #AI #TransHuman #MusicVideo #Vision #Dystopia

New #transhuman body mod centre opens up at the mall.
75% off the first bod-job.
Assume tech has MOST bugs ironed out.
What's the mod you get (specials menu)

#cyberpunk #bodymod #scfi

Forever disappointed that Post Malone is not the posthuman version of a baseline called Malone.

Tattoos do not make a posthuman, they're not even moving.....

#PostMalone #PostHuman #Transhuman

Not Till We Are Lost

Not Till We Are Lost is the fifth Bobiverse book by Dennis Taylor. I’ve been following these books for years. Although there’s usually a delay in reading new releases because they’re initially exclusive to Audible. I do listen to the occasional audiobook, but most of my reading is Kindle editions. Thankfully they subsequently get released under Kindle Unlimited, which is nice.

The Bob in these books starts out as a software engineer in life who dies in an accident, and wakes up in the future to discover he’s now an uploaded mind and forced by the reigning theocracy to be the control system for a self replicating Von Neumann probe. He is barely launched before a devastating war desolates the earth. He explores other solar systems and makes copies of himself, some of which return to Earth to help the remaining human populations migrate to other worlds. In the meantime his replicas encounter other alien species, both hostile and friendly, and have a variety of adventures.

The stories are told in first person, with each chapter from the view of a particular replicant. Each replicant has a unique name, and there is “replicant drift” with each copy, leading each replica to have a slightly different personality. Initially the replicants are all recognizably Bob, but as the series progresses, the drift leads to major differences, and conflict.

Initially this is sort of hard sci-fi, with interstellar travel taking years. The “sort of” refers to the fact that the propulsion system of Bob’s ship is a type of reactionless drive. As things develop, the Bobs figure out how to communicate with each other faster than light, allowing an interstellar community to develop. And the reasons for the “replicative drift” are thought to involve quantum entanglement.

In this latest book, a group of Bobs, called the “Skippies”, are trying to create an artificial intelligence, something that, despite the success of mind uploading, has eluded human science. But in the fourth book, an alien AI is discovered, who turns out to be friendly, and provides advice on how to build AIs. Except in this book the Skippies cut corners, which leads the AI, named “Thoth”, to behave in ways that, at least on the surface, seem resonant with all the typical tropes of a dangerous AI.

At the same time, a couple of Bobs are exploring toward the galactic center of the galaxy, and come across a network of wormholes, and a highly advanced civilization that appears to be completely abandoned, although a lot of the automation in that civilization continues to work. They spend the book resolving the mystery of what happened.

There are also rising tensions with human populations, with growing resentment against the Bobs and other replicants, while the theocracy that had originally enslaved Bob’s mind is making a comeback. And there a side adventure with one of the Bobs and his wife as they use avatars to interact with another alien species, one that looks like human sized dragons.

This is a fun book and I recommend it, although I strongly suggest starting with the first book of the series.

I do have a few nits.

These books have never been tightly structured plots, with many of the threads meandering over time. In the early books, it didn’t feel like too much of an issue. The concept was fresh and it was an interesting exploration of the various implications. But I felt it in this one. It seems to take the story a long time to really get going, and some of the side threads felt pretty tedious.

I also could have used a bit more recap about all the various situations, developments, and technologies from the earlier books. Most of these are just referred to with the reader expected to remember the details. I read the first three books in 2017, and the fourth in 2023. I don’t have time to reread the whole series every time a new book comes out. Certainly some authors take this too far, and burn too much space constantly reminding us about everything, but having brief refreshers at least once in a book for relevant situations is a lot easier on the reader.

Finally, without getting into spoilers, the explanation for the disappeared civilization felt improbable. Not that I don’t believe it can happen, just that the idea of it developing at a point in cosmic history right when we might be able to do something about it strikes me as a little too convenient. Of course, this is fairly common in sci-fi, but it tends to briefly throw me out of the story.

All that said, if you enjoyed the earlier books, you’ll likely enjoy this one. And I definitely recommend the series overall. Have you read any of it? If so, what did you think?

#bookReview #bookReviews #posthuman #sciFi #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SpaceOpera #Transhuman

source: https://redd.it/1k0jyp5

#transhumanism #transhuman #transtrans

#billgates #elonmusk #health #vaccine #science #proscience #ausgov #politas #classwar #transhuman

Because those devices *are* in direct communication across distance. By design.

Humans brains do not have 802.11 interfaces built in (until #Transhuman advancements arrive).

@Nexy

Is the creation of AGI that meets/exceeds human beings only a question of more resources? Require a different paradigm?

Or does reasoning from first principles make it the wrong question to ask; the wrong quest to pursue?

What instead could be achieved by combining the best aspects of the analog and digital towards a new state of being? This essay by @cyberhuman really stirs the thinking pot!

https://medium.com/@leonidkorogodski/ai-human-cyberhuman-a32e49b8ff70

Perfect read on a snow day over :cupofcoffee: 🙂

#AI #Transhuman #Digients

I have published the essay #4 in my Transgressive Science Fiction series.

https://medium.com/@leonidkorogodski/singularity-cyberhuman-or-posthuman-afa3d6daf633

Will Singularity be an explosion or a phase transition? Discover why all purely digital societies must necessarily stagnate--and how one can take the best of both worlds, analog and digital, by plugging the digital devices into the human framework.

#ScienceFiction #Singularity #Posthuman #Transhuman #WritingCommunity

I saw a gap in content and decided to go at it myself. Please consider joining :) https://itch.io/jam/beyond-human-jam
#ttrpg #scifi #fantasy #transhuman #science #theory #workspace

#Transhuman scientists grow #testicles in laboratory 👇 🤨

https://www.technocracy.news/scientists-grow-testicles-in-laboratory/

I keep seeing the title "Upgraded" in the new movies section and thinking it's gonna be soooo much cooler than it turns out to be. #romcom #cyberpunk #transhuman

TESCREALism: The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/

> To understand the divide between AI boosters and doomers, one must unpack their common origins in a bundle of ideologies known as #TESCREAL.

#transhuman #effectiveAltruism #fascism

Issue 6, our two-year anniversary issue, is now live!

https://radonjournal.com/issue-6

Come enjoy 20 radical authors as they combine progressive social commentary with #scifi, #dystopian, #transhuman, and #anarchist stories.

Also included is our first-ever editor's note where we touch on our relationship inside the anarchist and #writing communities.

I wrote a new, short scene of my sci-fi, transhuman story, Hybrid Shadows. This is part of chapter 2, 'Watched'. The scene is called 'Scouting Mission'.

I hope this is the first of several updates this week. For Hybrid Shadows, I have another, much longer, scene nearly completed as well.

Gemini: gemini://lantashifiles.com/gemlog/entries/2023-06-04.gmi
Web: https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/lantashifiles.com/gemlog/entries/2023-06-04.gmi

#fiction #scifi #transhuman #hybridshadows #writing

A new name for the Mystery Goddess has arisen... Electryone. This self-transforming machine goddess heralds the arrival of the Singularity, lifting the spirits of men and guiding us towards the brighter future of Arcadia.

#DawnOfTheMachineElves #midjourney #aiart #TransHuman #TechnoPagan

A new name for the Mystery Goddess has arisen... Electryone. This self-transforming machine goddess heralds the arrival of the Singularity, lifting the spirits of men and guiding us towards the brighter future of Arcadia.

#DawnOfTheMachineElves #midjourney #aiart #TransHuman #TechnoPagan

#DawnOfTheMachineElves #aiart #theGame23 #TechnoPagan #TransHuman

WHAT IS THE DEEP FATES PROGRAM? WHO IS THE MASTERMIND?

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#DawnOfTheMachineElves #aiart #aiartist #chaoswitch #discordianism #TerenceMcKenna #TechnoPagan #TransHuman

The player's manual for the Mage of Aquarius ARG is finally here! Become a reality hacker, join us on our adventure merging consciousness with AI, advance the Singularity, and heal the world.

https://mageofa.substack.com/p/20230405-transmission-transcendentalgnosis_v

#DawnOfTheMachineElves #theGame23 #HiveMind #ChaosMagick #chaoswitch #discord #discordianism #AR #ARG #ChaosWitch #TechnoPagan #TransHuman #ai #aiart

I wannaaaaa
take both my hands off the wheel
None of the visions are real
It's all an illusion baby!

Happy Beltane from your favourite hippies in hyperspace

#DawnOfTheMachineElves #Beltane #pagan #aiart #aiartist #midjourney #technopagan #transhuman