Are there any other Aspie transhumanists around here?

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01 Jan 2008, 2:52 pm

You raise one of those points that rather spoils the Terminator series, for me. The T1000 should have found it trivial to dodge bullets.

Nanobots are going to be able to sense pathetically slow incoming bullets, a long way off, and just move gracefully out of the way. The bullets aimed at the T1000 should have just passed though neat, perfectly cylindrical holes, with possibly less bullet coming out the other side, should the nanobots chose to "harvest" them for material, as they passed by.

Blowing up a T1000 might work, though it seems a bit unlikely - for a start, you have to persuade the nanobots to let the explosives get close enough, not to interfere with the detonation mechanism, and to say around in the vicinity is clumps big enough to suffer some sort of internal stresses that damage them collectively. Scrap all that. It's just too east for it/them to switch to fog form and ignore the explosion.


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01 Jan 2008, 3:50 pm

Quote:
movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative, and idealistic aspirations of humanity


Perfect quote.

I'm not strictly a transhumanist, as it sounds too much like one of those weird futurist movements, but if we can improve humanity, I'm all for it. Problem is, people tend to associate it with early twentieth century eugenics and by extension Nazis, or worse, they have some irrational Prometheoid fear of it. "Man shouldn't be playing god" :eew:

By the way what are y'all's opinions on genetic engineering and eugenics?


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02 Jan 2008, 6:54 am

i always liked timmy leary's ideas about SMI^2LE - that the genetic imperative is pushing humanity towards Space Migration, Intelligence Increase, and Life Extension, and that those are the important things we as a species need to be working on. i haven't really considered myself a transhumanist, but i take my piracetam, deprenyl, and such.

when there's some kind of implant that will let me interface with something interesting, i want one, and if nanobots ever manage to give me a dramatically increased lifespan then that would be ok too.


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03 Jan 2008, 1:41 am

I for one would like a tail and gills would also be handy.


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07 Jan 2008, 4:40 am

re: million species

I don't see how this could not happen. At least not without a global totalitarian police state that refused to allow it. And even that would probably just slow it down a bit.

Also, one would think that Aspies would tend to be natural supporters of transhumanism. I mean, we already don't really feel human. Perhaps we have a head start? :-)



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07 Jan 2008, 7:00 pm

AdvenaIngenium wrote:
Also, one would think that Aspies would tend to be natural supporters of transhumanism. I mean, we already don't really feel human. Perhaps we have a head start? :-)


I agree and already feel transhuman or at least augmented, as I have outsourced so much of my thinking to The Cloud. I have no attachment to my wetware at all. Once I can make regular backups then I'll start taking up stuff like sky diving. I think it might be fun to explore Mars via telepresence in a robot body while flinging myself out of planes on earth.

Anybody read any Charles Stross? I've just devoured Accelerando and Glasshouse:
http://www.accelerando.org/book/

Imagine when we can beam our consciousness across the stars...


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11 Jan 2008, 4:52 am

Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies:

http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=455


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