IEET’s End-of-the-Year Request for Generous Donations
(Dec 28, 2015)Dear IEET Member,
2015 was a tipping-point year for our momentous concerns - providing ethics in a future world of advancing technologies.
We have been in existence for almost eleven years, and our message has finally reached the mainstream — today IEET’s areas of focus are regularly front page news.
Giulio Prisco and Micah Redding interviewed in Motherboard
(Dec 20, 2015)IEET Board Member Giulio Prisco and IEET Contributing Writer Micah Redding were recently featured in a MotherboardVICE article titled The Turing Church Preaches the Future of Religion.
Online Transhumanist Academy: The “School of Accelerating Technologies” (Dec 20, 2015)
IEET Fellows Ramez Naam and Jamais Cascio featured in Ensia.com (Dec 11, 2015)
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Private vs. Public Blockchains
by Ian Worrall
Dec 29, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkI am writing this piece in the hope of sparking some insight and viewpoints from fellow industry leaders and innovators because the concept (and increased appeal) of private blockchain networks makes absolutely no sense to me.
For the sake of non-technocrats my goal is to keep this as simple as possible so they can be a part of the debate as well without us going off on a tangent about less important factors.
#3: Universal Basic Income - The Foundation of a Technically Advanced Society
by Nicole Sallak Anderson
Dec 29, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on June 15, 2015, and is the #3 most viewed of the year.
#4: Does Work Undermine our Freedom?
by John Danaher
Dec 28, 2015 • (2) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on February 1, 2015, and is the #4 most viewed of the year.
Principe de réalité?
by Marc Roux
Dec 28, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkComment le fait de rester les pieds sur terre n’empêche pas de rechercher un futur techno-progressiste.
Transhumanists as “Overlords” - my thoughts on the TV adaptation of “Childhood’s End”
by Khannea Suntzu
Dec 27, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkI’ll be sparse with the spoilers, but the following are a few short meandering thoughts I had about the premiere of the TV adaptation of the Arthur C. Clarke novel “Childhood’s End”.
In the novel (which differs from the TV episode) aliens arrive at Earth and put everything in order. Depending on who you ask, the aliens are fascists, meddlesome, saviours or suffocating parental figures who basically force the human species to live a happier life. They do so by enforcing strict cooperative behavior, equality, an end on various form of conflicts, etcetera.
#5: The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world
by Marcelo Rinesi
Dec 27, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on September 25, 2015, and is the #5 most viewed of the year.
Getting Human-Like Values into Advanced OpenCog AGIs
by Ben Goertzel
Dec 26, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkIn a recent blog post, I have proposed two general theses regarding the future value systems of human-level and transhuman AGI systems: the Value Learning Thesis (VLT) and Value Evolution Thesis (VET). This post pursues the same train of thought further – attempting to make these ideas more concrete via speculating about how the VLT and VET might manifest themselves in the context of an advanced version of the OpenCog AGI platform.
Metformin, Gamma Rays or Chocolate?
by Brian Hanley
Dec 26, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkIs metformin safe? The dose for the metformin aging clinical trial is 1700 mg per day. The mouse study doses from the graphs below are 300 and 100 mg/kg/day. Assuming an average 60 kg person, that’s about 28 mg/kg. This is about one-third to one-tenth the dose that mice got.
#6: How Artificial Intelligence Will Give Birth To Itself
by George Dvorsky
Dec 26, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on October 22, 2015, and is the #6 most viewed of the year.
Hypomania and the Hedonistic Imperative
by Gareth John
Dec 25, 2015 • (1) Comments • PermalinkIn David Pearce’s Manifesto ‘The Hedonistic Imperative’ he outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery could potentially converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience among human and non-human animals, replacing suffering with gradients of well-being, a project he describes as ‘paradise engineering.’ [1]
#7: Ten Health Benefits of Marijuana
by Marc Howard
Dec 25, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on August 29, 2015, and is the #7 most viewed of the year.
#8: If We Can Achieve Gay Marriage and Legal Pot, We Can Fix Climate Change Too
by Ramez Naam
Dec 24, 2015 • (1) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on July 18, 2015, and is the #8 most viewed of the year.
Religion and Violence
by Rick Searle
Dec 23, 2015 • (35) Comments • PermalinkSometimes, I get the uneasy feeling that the New Atheists might be right after all. Perhaps there is something latently violent in the religious imagination, some feature, or tendency, encouraged by religion that the world would better be without.
#9: Should Politicians be Replaced by Artificial Intelligence? Interview with Mark Waser
by Hank Pellissier
Dec 23, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on June 12, 2015, and is the #9 most viewed of the year.
#10: The Democratic Trilemma: Is Democracy Possible?
by John Danaher
Dec 22, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on February 5, 2015, and is the #10 most viewed of the year.
Paranoia, Conspiracies and Surveillance
by David Brin
Dec 22, 2015 • (1) Comments • Permalink== Another summons to resigned despair ==
Conspiracy theories abound. They erupt out of human nature, it seems, and your ethnicity or caste or political leanings only affect which direction you credit with devilish cleverness, secret power and satanic values. For sure, as a science fiction author I can concoct plausible schemes and plots with the best of them! Indeed, let me add that some real life cabals are so blatant and proudly obvious that you just have to admit – sometimes “they” are completely real and up to awful mischief.
#11: The End of Religion: Technology and the Future
by John G. Messerly
Dec 21, 2015 • (2) Comments • PermalinkAccording to IEET readers, what were the most stimulating stories of 2015? This month we’re answering that question by posting a countdown of the top 30 articles published this year on our blog (out of more than 1,000), based on how many total hits each one received.
The following piece was first published here on January 24, 2015, and is the #11 most viewed of the year.
Commentaire critique de l’avis n°122 du CCNE sur la “neuro-amélioration”
by Marc Roux
Dec 21, 2015 • (0) Comments • PermalinkUne franche avancée du transhumanisme : Le Comité National d’éthique reconnaît le sérieux de ses hypothèses (Mais se trompe en partie de cible dans ses critiques).
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