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 weapons used for vast amounts of people, individual targets based on their specific genetic profile and for animals, nature and the environment in ...
Living With Robots
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 the areas where robots will help us out. But at the same time endanger us. Because we don’t know the nature of consciousness, ...
The Choice of Pre-Birth Genetic Modification – Through Kant’s Ethics in the 21st Century
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 is that Kant’s ethics can be in line with certain thera- peutic interventions. Yet the same ethics disapproves with any sort of pre-birth ...
Infancy of the AI robots vs humans war to come
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, she later does’t react if the robot drives into her. What I’m seeing here is two worlds in their infancy, one is my ...
Future Transhumanism & Human Rights
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 the discussion and awareness about the forthcoming bio-technological possibilities - and how these will affect the relation between centralized decisions and the individual. https://youtu.be/BJj2nXSmEeo This ...
Example of Theological Scientism
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 bodies through bio-tech? It seems every day and age has some of that attitude, where science (or further back in history: religion) is ...
Obsolete human workforce, unemployment and the horse example by Nick Bostrom
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 out great didn’t it?”. Well it did that time and humans found new areas to work in, with increased working status and wages. ...
David Pearce – Hedonism & the “Pan Species Welfare State”
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 the: Pan Species Welfare State But I can understand that, because where there is no understanding of youth, aging, life and death there is only ...
Steps toward pre-birth genetic manipulation
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 benefit for the parents nor the child that will come out. It is blatantly a way of making these genetic manipulation processes acceptable ...
Ex Machina and the threat of artificial intelligence
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 undertones of a biological human being falling in love, in some sense, with an AI. For good or worse I won't be discussing ...
Dalai Lama on reincarnation and artificial intelligence
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 duplication and expansion of consciousness beyond our imagination. Perhaps all this was already regulated in the biological bodies we already have? That we ...
“Impossible” is an Incentive for Transhumanism
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 good and the bad. Here's a past short video on that + the music video mashup I did from Metropolis for the classic ...
Automata film review “When the dialogue stops”
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 to the already established sci-fi visions of Terminator and Matrix (not to make the list longer). We need these cinematic and free thinking ...
Zager & Evans ‘In The Year 2525’ music video and lyrics
Here's a video I cut from the classic apocalyptic sci-fi film Metropolis for the very short sci-fi folk song In The Year 2525 by Zager & Evans. I really found them fitting together in a transhumanism/Aldoush Huxley kind of way. What awaits at the end of singularity? If we ever get there? Thea von Harbou ...
Satellite surveillance and transhumanism
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 50cm to 25cm opening up to upcoming super improvement of satellite image quality. This is a starting point for the future where you'll be ...
There will be no reason to have a separation of A.I. and humans
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 systems running our world today, we would have called them conscious 200 years ago? Would we? So when we look at the development ...
Transcendence film review – transhumanism and singularity
This film is interesting in its ideas and vision of the future, not as a film in it self. So I'll focus only on the visionary content of it, that really resonates with our possible future. Something that we have already seen in earlier films like Terminator, The Matrix and the Battlestar Galactica series. Everyone ...