#transhumanism — Public Fediverse posts

That strange star alignment combining me having to look up about the Eden Project for my research while watching Silo that brought me into the very obscure and poorly explored rabbit hole of Technogaianism, Bucky Fueller, and my ancestral itch with "green architecture"

The amount of sh*t rich people come up.

#Transhumanism #EnvironmentalBreakdown

Fascinating but disturbing #BBCWorldService radio programme about #AI and the #CatholicChurch version of #ChatGPT - incredibly it's called #Magisterium 😧 as well as a bit of other stuff like #transhumanism and the creepy #BryanJohnson and his desire to live forever.. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct9840

...the famous techno-fascist Peter Thiel--a prominent supporter of transhumanism (which seeks to eliminate disability) and opponent of the welfare state, including disability assistance. 

"Thiel, apparently, is secretly investing in philosophical eugenics."

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#JasonArday
#philisophy
#sociology

#eugenics
#transhumanism
#PeterThiel
#tHeilHitler

#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

Is there anyone who is generally regarded favourably by multiple schools of thought as having a well-informed, evidence-based, articulate, balanced, reasonable take on the most likely impact of #AI on society?

The topic seems incredibly divisive, and I see a lot of polarisation in discussions between people who don't understand the technology and it's disruptive potential, to those who think it'll herald in #transhumanism and the dawn of a new era for humanity ... or those who think the end is nigh.

I'm in the more optimistic group who think it'll be transformative and both detrimental and beneficial but leaning far more towards beneficial. I think it's going to break a lot of institutions and structures, challenge trust, change our perception of and relationship with digital information, of certainty and predictability, of control.

But I'll readily admit I have no real idea, not really. I could be easily swayed by the doomsayers, and maybe it'll all be a flash in the pan; perhaps even a revolt against it, a lite Butlerian Jihad and ban on thinking machines.

Forbidden Planet (1956) https://www.filmsite.org/forbiddenplanet.html

Is this what the #Ai cult is all about; creating a monster from technology that has the energy to form anything desired to serve the dark side of the ego?
The moral being that none can destroy it until it destroys itself taking Earth with it. There is a way to end the contagion of corporate capital, so a happy ending is possible. #CreatingABetterWorld #ID #Ego #AiCult #transhumanism #philosophy #NoFutureCults #replicants #EliteCorruption #psychopathicnihilists #FutureEarth #mouldylogic #badmaths #smartwartech #AutomatedInformation

🚨 Who needs productivity when you can have "Guardian Angels" micromanage your life with personalized #AI babysitters? 👼🎉 Forget about actually enabling JavaScript—or understanding half the jargon here—just bask in the glow of buzzwords like "transhumanism" and "AI safety" while your productivity plummets. 😂 #TechBuzzwordBingo
https://gwern.net/guardian-angel #GuardianAngels #Babysitters #Transhumanism #TechBuzzwords #ProductivityPlummet #HackerNews #ngated

Another one finished! I could use some help with a name for it. It's an eyeball. The outside is dark American Walnut, representing the natural world. The inside is a circuit board, representing technology. I don't think it is too far fetched that people will have cybernetic eyeballs in the coming decades. The idea of a cybernetic eyeball is what inspired this piece. Most of the components on the pcb are for looks, but there's a string of ws2812 leds that I designed to look like Ethernet link lights. 

#PCBArt #TechArt #ElectronicArt #LEDArt #SciFiArt #Singularity# PostSingularity #Cybernetic #CreativeCoding #Transhumanism #electronics

Death is essential to evolution, hence a blessing. I make the claim that the only real cultural evolution of humankind happens with the growing up of new generation.

Now imagine a Stalin that doesn’t die, thrusting humankind into an eternal Soviet Union, where the elite is immortal and never changes.

Immortality would bring stagnation, and perhaps the death of the human race with it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gEoH9PBQKF8

#huxley #fear #death #tescreal #peterthiel #transhumanism #antichrist #scifi

I’m really excited to share a piece of art that’s been two years in the making. I call it Algorithmic Precipitation.

The piece is built from a custom printed circuit board. In the top copper layer is a city intersection, with a woman crossing the street. An everyday moment from a future that hasn’t quite arrived yet.

Across the scene, a downpour of small green raindrops falls from the sky, rendered using a grid of WS2812-2020 LEDs controlled by an ATmega328PB microcontroller. Two white LEDs occaisionally flash like lightning. A single amber LED mimics a failing streetlight.

The work is an exploration of what a post-singularity world might look like, where the boundary between the natural world and technology has blurred, and both are part of the same evolving system.

Also, I am trying to get better at this social media stuff, so today I uploaded my first YouTube video! If you want to see more of this piece, I made a long form video detailing every step of how I made it. Likes, boosts, and subscribers are appreciated! Check it out here: https://youtu.be/k712ZmR4pAk?si=-9bLeB-qkFdm6Kyn

I also have more pictures on my website: www.iandunnart.com.

#PCBArt #TechArt #ElectronicArt #LEDArt #SciFiArt #Singularity #PostSingularity #Cybernetic #CreativeCoding #Transhumanism #electronics