XiXiDu comments on Singularity Institute mentioned on Franco-German TV - Less Wrong

10 Post author: XiXiDu 07 November 2011 02:14PM

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Comment author: XiXiDu 08 November 2011 10:42:41AM 2 points [-]

The video I downloaded from this link hardly lasts 3 minutes. Was this intended?

It was a documentary on transhumanism in general. They interviewed Kurzweil, Aubrey de Grey, Gordon Bell and various other people and groups like the Mars Society, 3D printing and biohacker groups. They also visited Intel and the Singularity University. Ted Kaczynski was portrayed shortly before the SIAI.

I didn't upload the whole thing for copyright reasons. There isn't really anything you haven't heard before. It was an overall portray of the scene without any valuation.

Comment author: loup-vaillant 08 November 2011 04:36:13PM 1 point [-]

OK, thanks. My primary motivation for seeing the whole thing wasn't to learn about transhumanism itself, but to learn about mainstream perception of it. (I reckon Arte isn't exactly mainstream, though.)