Fakery, Simulation Theory & Cognitive Dissonance
Everything can be visually faked and rendered indistinguishable from real footage with modern CGI power. How far will this evolve? Are we already NPC's in a simulated world? In the Matrix? Or ...
Sanjin Đumišić
Sanjin Đumišić
Everything can be visually faked and rendered indistinguishable from real footage with modern CGI power. How far will this evolve? Are we already NPC's in a simulated world? In the Matrix? Or ...
Here's a video with some thoughts about the possibility that CRISPR and all the genetic biotech whatever it may be called, will be the future of weapons of mass destruction. Delicate annihilation ...
As long as we can survive and thrive somewhat as a human society, we will develop more and more complex robots. Industrial efficiency, medical diagnosing and general private use are some of ...
This essay discusses, departing from Kant’s deontological ethics, and deals with the ques- tion of which types of pre-birth genetic modification are acceptable from the perspective of Kant’s ethics theory? The conclusion ...
The other day at my parents place I switches on ‘Robbie’, the robot vacuum cleaner. Florens is always curious about the robot, following it with her full attention. While initially somewhat afraid, ...
Discussion on the status of future human genetic enhancement policies. The conclusion lands on the need to guarantee individual rights in a firm and constitutional way. Also to further expand and increase ...
You know those "if it was safe and could make this better... we must do it" arguments regarding GMO for better crops, or geoengineering for better climate and permanent changes in our ...
When technology optimists talk about the unemployment and obsolete human workforce they regard it as a fear, just like the one in the 19th century, for which they answer ”Look! It turned ...
I think David Pearce is trying to escape something in his pursue for imagining a sort of (blissful, ultra positive) emotional utopia. Where alla species are free from suffering. Something he calls ...
There has been a lot of mentioning about the 3-parent way of producing children that was accepted in the U.K. First of all I don’t believe any of it is for the ...
We've had some films about artificial intelligence and singularity from the past years like Automata, Transcendence, Her and so on - Ex Machina continues along that track. All these movies have the same ...
Here's some interesting viewpoints, coming straight from the highest source in Tibetan Buddhism, regarding artificial intelligence and reincarnation. If it's possible to upload/download the mind we're going to be in for a ...
History says that everything thought impossible just meant someone will keep pushing it until it's done! Just a reminder of that "not-possible" mentality that is out there among people - everything can happen, ...
The film offers no groundbreaking take or vision about the future of artificial intelligence. Yet films like Automata and Transcendence, keep the topic alive in the mainstream so to speak. Offering updates ...
Here's a music video I cut together with footage from the classic apocalyptic sci-fi film Metropolis, combined with sci-fi folk song In The Year 2525 by Zager & Evans. I really found them ...
The next 10 years will see a quality shift in the quality of commercial satellite images available. The company Digital Globe has through lobbying made the U.S. government relax their limits from ...
In the coming age of super exponential technological and biological development humans will not just create A.I. We will merge with that from the start. If we look at the complex computer ...