• Beware Online “Filter Bubbles”

    Updated: 2011-05-31 03:06:45
    As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there’s a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a “filter bubble” and don’t get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview.

  • When Gadgets Betray Us

    Updated: 2011-05-31 03:06:45
    Blog Events Multimedia About Purpose Programs Publications Staff Contact Join Login Register Support the IEET The IEET is a 501(c 3 non-profit , tax-exempt organization registered in the State of Connecticut in the United States . Please give as you are able , and help support our work for a brighter . future Via PayPal Subscribe to : Technoprogressive BioConservative Huh Quick overview of biopolitical points of view Designer Psychologies : Moving Beyond Neurotypicality Wendell Wallach on Machine Morality When Gadgets Betray Us Will Enlightened Posthumans Establish Post-Capitalist Utopias pt2 Advance Directives and Transhumanism Transhumanism Meets Design” Conference Recap : Beyond enhancement Bioprinting Artificial Wombs Will Spawn New Freedoms Beware Online Filter Bubbles” A Majority of

  • Will Enlightened Posthumans Establish Post-Capitalist Utopias? pt2

    Updated: 2011-05-31 03:06:45
    Blog Events Multimedia About Purpose Programs Publications Staff Contact Join Login Register Support the IEET The IEET is a 501(c 3 non-profit , tax-exempt organization registered in the State of Connecticut in the United States . Please give as you are able , and help support our work for a brighter . future Via PayPal Subscribe to : Technoprogressive BioConservative Huh Quick overview of biopolitical points of view Designer Psychologies : Moving Beyond Neurotypicality Wendell Wallach on Machine Morality When Gadgets Betray Us Will Enlightened Posthumans Establish Post-Capitalist Utopias pt2 Advance Directives and Transhumanism Transhumanism Meets Design” Conference Recap : Beyond enhancement Bioprinting Artificial Wombs Will Spawn New Freedoms Beware Online Filter Bubbles” A Majority of

  • Ben Scarlato Advance Directives and Transhumanism

    Updated: 2011-05-31 03:06:45
    Advance directives are documents which give guidance on what should be done when your health deteriorates to the point where you can no longer make decisions for yourself. Sadly, these documents are often neglected by the general public until it is too late, but it’s even more crucial for transhumanists to think about and complete these documents.

  • Bioprinting

    Updated: 2011-05-31 03:06:45
    Bioprinting uses a 3D printing process to create synthetic human tissue. One day it could therefore be used to print replacement human organs. This video by Christopher Barnatt explores future medical and cosmetic bioprinting applications.

  • Ben Goertzel Wendell Wallach on Machine Morality

    Updated: 2011-05-31 03:06:45
    Wendell Wallach, a lecturer and consultant at Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics—and recently appointed as an IEET Fellow—has emerged as one of the leading voices on technology and ethics.

  • George Dvorsky “Transhumanism Meets Design” Conference Recap: Beyond enhancement

    Updated: 2011-05-31 03:06:45
    I recently returned from New York City where I attended the Humanity+ @ Parsons conference on May 14th and 15th. I always have a great time at these events, and this conference was no exception.

  • Medico-Legal Aspects of Human Cryopreservation Optimization

    Updated: 2011-05-28 16:43:40
    Arts Living Cryonics Death Health Neuroscience Philosophy Rejuvenation Science Society Depressed Metabolism Cryonics , Life Extension , Anti-Aging , Health , Science , Neuroscience , Death Subscribe Subscribe by email About Authors What is cryonics Sitemap Medico-Legal Aspects of Human Cryopreservation Optimization By Aschwin de Wolf on May 28th , 2011 Introduction Ongoing legal challenges and hostile interference of relatives have increased awareness among cryonicists that addressing the likelihood that one will be cryopreserved at all should take center stage among other strategies for survival . As a consequence , a number of individuals have recently taken on the task of working out the conceptual and legal challenges to minimize hostile interference for a contribution on the ethical

  • Neural cryobiology and the legal recognition of cryonics

    Updated: 2011-05-16 08:38:19
    Arts Living Cryonics Death Health Neuroscience Philosophy Rejuvenation Science Society Depressed Metabolism Cryonics , Life Extension , Anti-Aging , Health , Science , Neuroscience , Death Subscribe Subscribe by email About Authors What is cryonics Sitemap Neural cryobiology and the legal recognition of cryonics By Aschwin de Wolf on May 16th , 2011 It has been said that if you want to persuade someone , you need to find common ground . But one of the defining characteristics of cryonics is that proponents and opponents cannot even seem to agree on the criteria that should be employed in discussing cryonics . The cryonics skeptic will argue that the idea of cryonics is dead on arrival because cryonics patients are dead . The response of the cryonics advocate is that death is not a state

  • SIAI $1,000+ Donor List Published

    Updated: 2011-05-11 05:13:39
    A list of those who contributed more than $1,000 to the Singularity Institute in the last few years has been posted. Please inform our list maintainer if there are any omissions. Here are the top five donors from recent years: Thiel Foundation $1,100,000 Jaan Tallinn $100,000 Brian Cartmell $100,000 Rick Schwall $82,000 Edwin Evans $35,000

  • Detailed Analysis of SIAI Financials Posted

    Updated: 2011-05-11 02:35:13
    Over at Less Wrong, Brandon Reinhart, who has no previous affiliation with the Singularity Institute, posted a detailed analysis of our financials since the organization was founded in 2000, based on public records.

  • how to slowly go insane in the mainframe

    Updated: 2011-05-09 15:03:10
    If you got the reference in the title, take a moment to pat yourself on the back. Just like Fry and Bender, you’re about to take a brief trip into the mind of a machine driven insane by its handlers to simulate schizophrenia, a more or less umbrella diagnosis for a number of breakdowns in [...]

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