With a touch of wit, Dr. James Hughes summarizes market fundamentalist backlash against Marshall Brain's heretical idea that democratic government can actually help as technologies continue to disrupt labor-based economies. Yo, fellow meatbag, isn’t this the conference about the idea that greater than human intelligence will be such a profound ( Read more... )

[via Sentient Developments and the IEET ]

Marshall Brain, the author of Robotic Nation, gets a spot at the Singularity Summit this past weekend to explain the structural unemployment problems we're likely to face as machines become more productive, and why the best response might be a guaranteed income.

Now that's what I call forced retirement.

( New community for meeting radical bloggers and thinkers! )

Just curious about what people in this community do actively for the transhumanist cause? Perhaps we could have a debate on the efficiency of various initiatives ( Read more... )

A while back, bookhling and I entered this contest.

Some of you may surely be interested in seeing our entry, which we submitted last night.

Aug 8th 7p First Hill Bar and Grill here in Seattle (901 Madison).

Facebook invite (including some reading materials) can be found here. Whitechapel discussion here.

Topic will be information intake, filtering, healthy information diets.

Greetings, everyone. This is my first post, nice to meet you and all that. Let's talk about something ( Read more... )

"The problem with the [transhumanist] label is that it suggests that we should run away from being human."

--Peter Thiel, venture capitalist and major funder of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Hey there, I'm currently experimenting with nootropics and have started a regimin this week. If anyone is interested in following my progress or chatting about smart drugs or transhumanism in general, please feel free to drop by my journal, all open minds welcome :)

I'm an atheist ( Read more... )