• Top 31 Countdown

    Updated: 2010-11-30 20:49:03
    According to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2010?

  • The Ethical Robot

    Updated: 2010-11-30 20:49:03
    University of Connecticut professor emerita Susan Anderson and her research partner, husband Michael Anderson of the University of Hartford, a UConn alumnus, are teaching machines how to behave ethically.

  • All I Need

    Updated: 2010-11-30 20:49:03
    Some things cost more than you realize.

  • Strong Consensus on Improving Human Morality

    Updated: 2010-11-30 20:49:03
    Two-thirds of those responding to a recently concluded poll of IEET readers say that human morality is not fixed, that it can be improved — and that we see it happening all the time.

  • New JET article by Nicholas Agar

    Updated: 2010-11-30 20:49:03
    Over at the Journal of Evolution and Technology we’ve published a new article by Nicholas Agar, in which he summarises some of the argument from his new book, Humanity’s End, which focuses on and critiques the work of Ray Kurzweil, and the IEET’s Nick Bostrom, James Hughes and Aubrey de Grey.

  • Historical Death Meme

    Updated: 2010-11-17 23:31:29
    Arts Living Cryonics Death Health Neuroscience Science Society Depressed Metabolism Cryonics , Life Extension , Anti-Aging , Health , Science , Neuroscience , Death , Liberty Subscribe Subscribe by email About Authors What is cryonics Sitemap Historical Death Meme By Luke Parrish on November 17th , 2010 There’s a pretty simple explanation as to where motivated skepticism for cryonics originates . If you currently are skeptical of cryonics , you should carefully consider whether this . applies Historically , there has been a powerfully optimized meme regarding the topic known as death . If you lost vital signs , you were irrevocably lost . There was nothing that could be done . The belief evolved that there is a mysterious point termed death” which is in principle . irreversible From this

  • The diminishing returns of reactive medicine

    Updated: 2010-11-16 21:51:54
    Arts Living Cryonics Death Health Neuroscience Science Society Depressed Metabolism Cryonics , Life Extension , Anti-Aging , Health , Science , Neuroscience , Death , Liberty Subscribe Subscribe by email About Authors What is cryonics Sitemap The diminishing returns of reactive medicine By Aschwin de Wolf on November 16th , 2010 In an article for Slate Jay Olshansky argues in favor of a position that one would expect to be common sense at this : point While we can extend life in aging bodies through behavioral improvements and medical treatments , the time has arrived to acknowledge that our current model of reactive medicine , of trying to treat each separate disease of old age as it occurs , is reaching a point of diminishing . returns So what is the reason why vast amounts of money are

  • Timeless Decision Theory Paper Released

    Updated: 2010-11-13 02:33:25
    Eliezer Yudkowsky has completed a highly anticipated paper on Timeless Decision Theory, formalizing a proposal for a new decision theory built to avoid the failures of the two standard decision theories, evidential decision theory and causal decision theory. It is the position of the SIAI that developing better formal decision theories is crucial to [...]

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