Hmmm... seems to me that life extension and AI are getting more love than uploading lately -- there is lots of tech industry $$ and media going into these too areas lately, not so much into mind uploading...
You may be right that mind uploading is getting a lot of attention in the transhumanist community currently. But, the transhumanist community is not really all that centrally relevant to the advancement of transhumanism-enabling technologies, is it? Transhumanists may be better at seeing what is happening and what is coming than others; but tech advancement is mostly being driven by people on the boundary btw the transhumanist community and the mainstream science/tech community, rather than (so far) by the hardcore transhumanists... ben On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Alan Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd loose my troll credentials if I didn't respond to this. =| > > My position is that I feel that uploading is crowding out all other > forms of transhumanism, especially ones that I find more interesting > (read: sexy). Many of the writings of the several self-proclaimed > transhumanists basically demand the conclusion that there is an ongoing > program, that is quickly picking up momentum, to impose a new religious > doctrine that states that Transhumanism really is nothing other than a > single, very specific, form of mind uploading and that, after a grace > period of maybe a week and a half, everyone who does not voluntarily > upload, will be uploaded anyway but an attempt will be made to conceal > this fact and the uploadee will be expected to somehow enjoy being in > this prison that is Just Like Earth(tm). > > I'm writing a response to that, currently at 41,000 words. =P > > I think I'm going to have to write a post to the other list.... > > John Rose wrote: >> 2. Many, or most religions already have had a "transhumanist" element, that >> is leaving the body in the afterlife for example. >> >> Contemporarily created religions naturally will have the "afterlife" more >> practically spec'd out, for example if you wanna go Linux or Windows, be >> cross-platform or whatever. The soul might be an RFC and have XML web >> services interface. We might celebrate the birth of Sergey Brin and create a >> high-tech digital hell where your mind upload is tortured if you do wrong, >> like for example being forced to watch Bucky and Pepito reruns while >> listening to Leonard Cohen for 1000 years. >> >> Same old stuff but new technologies... > > -- > IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. > > Powers are not rights. > > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery / None but ourselves can free our minds" -- Robert Nesta Marley ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
