Too many questions for me and they box me into positions I wouldn't otherwise declare, so it'd just be noise. Good luck, though. :)
Pawel Pachniewski On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Andrés Gómez Emilsson < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello people into AGI! > > I am Andrés Gómez Emilsson, the former president of the Stanford > Transhumanist Associations. I just graduated from Stanford with a masters > in computational psychology. I would like to request your attention for a > moment: > > > There is a wide number of transhumanist strains/clusters, and we don't > really understand why. How do we explain the fact that immortality is the > number one concern for some, while it is a very minor concern for others > who are more preoccupied with AI apocalypse or making everyone animated by > gradients of bliss? > > > A possible interpretation is that our values and objectives are in fact > intimately connected to our background assumptions about fundamental > matters such as consciousness and personal identity. To test this theory, > I developed a questionnaire for transhumanists that will examine the > relationship between transhumanist goals and their background philosophical > assumptions. If you wish to contribute, please find this questionnaire here > (it takes ~15 minutes): > > > https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8v9vIIyIOCBV8c5 > > > The link will be alive until July 30 2015. > > The very sense we give to words requires an underlying network of > background assumptions to support them. Thus, when we don't share implicit > background assumptions, we often interpret what others say in very > different ways than what they had in mind. With enough transhumanists > answering this questionnaire (about 150) we will be able to develop a > better ontology. What would this look like? I don't know yet, but I can > give you an example of the sort of results this work can deliver: > qualiacomputing.com/2015/06/09/state-space-of-drug-effects-results/ > > > Thank you in advance. > > Andrés :) > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/26958645-ca8dd8d2> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
