I filled it in, but I guess it's past the deadline, not sure why it's still live. anyways would like to see what the results are.
also if there were some links or something explaining what those flavours of transhumanism are about that would be helpful. otherwise in terms of why are there so many flavours of it? because it is the begining, every variation is being attempted. once there are some successful it will outcompete less successful ideologies. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 9:55 PM, EdFromNH . <[email protected]> wrote: > I spent a fair amount of time trying to respond to this but the app first > was flaky and then crashed and lost what I had entered, so screw it > > On Tuesday, July 28, 2015, Pawel Pachniewski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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> >> <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/8630185-a57a74e1> | >> Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription >> <http://www.listbox.com> >> > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/5037279-a88c7a6d> | 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
