posthumane ideen gab es schon 1929. in diesem essay geht es um eine diskussion der idee, menschliche gehirne vom körper zu isolieren, was im grunde eine cartesische philosophie ist. der schreiber des essays behauptet das dies nicht funktionieren wird und wendet sich gegen den telelogischen Posthumanismus, da man nie mit sicherheit sagen kann, wo bestimmte Experimente enden werden.
posthuman ideas already were developed in 1929. in this essay there is a discussion about the idea to isolate the human brain from its body, what is in fact cartesian philosophy. the writer claims that this cant work and argues against the telelogical posthumanism, as you can never be sure how certain experiments will end.
Yes, as long as they can be interpreted as audiovisual pendants to more classical articles. Anything that strays to far from the article-like category, could be placed in
if it’s more about (un)popular culture, or otherwise in the
a futurist and enemy of the basic income. his argument is, that you will be so dependend on the state with an UBI, instead of being a slave of the companys you will be a slave of the state.
this scenario is also described in one of the black mirror episodes.
i think it is a possible scenario, but not a necessary one.
You can easily introcuce a multidimensional scale, just as you can compute the distance between 2 vectors and their direction. Sure, multiple scales are possible and the scale might not tell you what you actually want to know.
If humans dont have a general purpuse mind, why should then AIs need one to function?
Might be true
Might be true, too complex of a topic
Might be true.
All in all a technological singularity in form of a grey goo wont be stopped by this arguments.
Its basically about the kind of technological singularity we hope to hit.
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