[Link] My latest around of internet urban legend research: Deep web secrets

0 Deku-shrub 28 September 2016 07:12PM
Comment author: MrMind 05 September 2016 07:36:46AM 1 point [-]

As far as politics can be reduced to a problem of optimization, surely machines could do a better job than humans.

Comment author: Deku-shrub 07 September 2016 09:28:34PM 0 points [-]

Pretty much, but I advocate this only in an opt-in, accountable fashion. Or as we say in the IT industry - user acceptance. :)

Why we may elect our new AI overlords

2 Deku-shrub 04 September 2016 01:07AM

In which I examine some of the latest development in automated fact checking, prediction markets for policies and propose we get rich voting for robot politicians.

http://pirate.london/2016/09/why-we-may-elect-our-new-ai-overlords/

Comment author: Deku-shrub 18 June 2016 11:59:34AM 5 points [-]

I am posting here to karma-whore, so that I may one day allowed to actually contribute to the community!

I run H+Pedia the wiki of transhumanism and futurism which has been a great ongoing project to map out everything from emerging technology developments through to political and ideological advocacy in this space.

I'm also a cybercrime researcher, so my life is rather cyberpunk.

Comment author: turchin 23 April 2016 08:35:33PM 0 points [-]

And what is gaining traction? To become a God using FAI?

Comment author: Deku-shrub 24 April 2016 09:06:20AM 0 points [-]

Asking me to sum up the current state of the H+ movement is tricky because I track the entire thing on H+Pedia.

Atheism is growing very strong, due to the influence of Zoltan Istvan, where as I believe Aubrey de Grey is toning down some of his immortalist rhetoric in favour of alternative terms like "Regenerative Medicine" and the like.

There are all kinds of trends I could comment on.

Comment author: WalterL 18 April 2016 04:59:26PM 0 points [-]

Seems like nothing will ever be immortal. Second Law of Thermodynamics and all.

Comment author: Deku-shrub 23 April 2016 07:21:16PM 0 points [-]

Immortality comes with all kinds of definitions, literal immortality sounds more of a type-X civilization problem to me :)

Comment author: Deku-shrub 23 April 2016 07:20:14PM 0 points [-]

Immortalism is losing popularity within H+ due to its popular interpretation as 'forced immortality', a trope well explored in fiction. :/