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UPCOMING EVENTS: Cyber




MULTIMEDIA: Cyber Topics

Digital Nation
2010-02-03


Abstraction, by xkcd
2009-12-16


Putting the Human Back Into the Post-Human
2009-11-09


Building Friendly Robots
2009-10-16


Gamer Trailer
2009-08-21


Surrogates Trailer
2009-08-19


The Singularity Film
2009-08-13


The Posthuman Possibility Space
2009-08-12


Achieving Friendly Artificial Intelligence
2009-08-05


Cascio’s Laws of Robotics
2009-08-02


Robot Attack Insurance
2009-07-31


AI and the Future of Human Morality
2009-05-28


Debate on AGI: Utopia or Apocalypse?
2009-05-10


Mind Control Fad Ready to Sweep College Campuses
2009-04-30


Neurophilosophy, Geoengineering, and the Merits of Capitalism v. Socialism
2009-04-11


Empathy for Robots
2009-04-03


Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?
2009-02-27


All the Global Catastrophic Risks Talks Online
2009-01-05


The Implications Of An Increasingly Automated Economy
2009-01-03


Global Catastrophic Risks Overview
2008-12-28




 
 
 







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Futures Thinking: Writing Scenarios

by Jamais Cascio

So what do scenarios actually look like? Here are some real-world examples.

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Deus Ex

by Kyle Munkittrick

Transhumanism spans a huge swath of intellectual territory, straddling bioethics, philosophy, science fiction, engineering, and computer science. Throw in conspiracy theories and cyberpunk nihilism and you have all the ingredients for Deus Ex.

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A.I. Special Pleading

by Kyle Munkittrick

Special pleading, along with feigned neutrality, is one of the most infuriating symptoms of faulty rhetoric one can utilize in an argument.

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Problems of Transhumanism: Liberal Democracy vs. Technocratic Absolutism

by J. Hughes

Transhumanists, like Enlightenment partisans in general, believe that human nature can be improved but are conflicted about whether liberal democracy is the best path to betterment. The liberal tradition within the Enlightenment has argued that individuals are best at finding their own interests and should be left to improve themselves in self-determined ways. But many people are mistaken about their own best interests, and more rational elites may have a better understanding of the general good. Enlightenment partisans have often made a case for modernizing monarchs and scientific dictatorships. Transhumanists need to confront this tendency to disparage liberal democracy in favor of the rule by dei ex machina and technocratic elites.

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Why You Should Care About (Post)Human Factors

by Samuel Kenyon

Your experiences and interactions were designed.

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Changes and Trends, For Better or For Worse

by Mike Treder


In the year 2025, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, they may find…

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Dialoguing with the US Military on the Ethics of Battlebots

by Ben Goertzel

Today I gave a brief invited talk at the National Defense University, in Washington DC, about the ethics of autonomous robot missiles and war vehicles and “battlebots” (my word, not theirs!) in general. The talk came about as a consequence of my role in the IEET, but I wound up bringing in a number of explicitly H+ themes.

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I Can Has Singularity?

by Jamais Cascio

IBM’s new cat brain simulation is both more—and less—than it seems.

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The Sharp Sword of Rationality

by Mike Treder

Wielded by an expert, the sharp sword of rationality cuts deep, exposing underlying layers of confusion, intellectual laziness, or willful misunderstanding in what might on the surface appear to be logical arguments.

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21st Century Threats

by Mike Treder

It’s useful to classify threats to human civilization not only on their potential severity, but also on their relative certainty.

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Memory and Insanity

by Mike Treder

How much do we need to remember about our past to be considered sane? If we remembered too much, would that drive us crazy?

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Fearing the Wrong Monsters

by Mike Treder

Fear is a great motivator. Throughout history, successful leaders have known how to use fear to unite and to manipulate their followers. Usually this fear is of “the other,” a group that looks different, talks different, or worships a different god.

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Filtering Reality

by Jamais Cascio

Here’s a startling vision for the next decade: two familiar online phenomena converge in an emerging technological arena to strike a fatal blow to American civil society.

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Singularity Scenarios

by Jamais Cascio

If we do have something we can describe as a Singularity, what then?

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Singularity Summit Coverage Coming

by Kris Notaro

One day away from the Singularity Summit in NYC!  I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be posting reports to this blog from the Summit on behalf of the IEET.

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The Singularity and Society

by Jamais Cascio

If the Singularity proponents are right, the world is going to get really weird—but not in the way they expect.

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Promoting Principles, Not Predictions

by Mike Treder

(This entry has been amended to correct mistaken interpretations of polling data.)

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Application Progamming Interfaces Are Not a Substitute for Ethics

by Jamais Cascio

As tempting as it is to rely on well-structured tools to prevent disastrous outcomes, even the best tools are ultimately insufficient. Good interfaces need to be accompanied by strong ethics.

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The Democratization of Virulence

by Mike Treder

A mistake in a factory can result in scores of injuries or deaths. A mistake at a chemical plant can kill thousands. But a mistake in a biological laboratory could result in a pandemic.

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Comment Problem Fixed

Some IEET readers have been unable to submit comments for the past several days due to a glitch with our ‘captcha’ software. That problem is now fixed. We apologize for the temporary outage in two-way communication.


Artificial Friends

by Mike Treder

DI/DO (Drop In, Drop Out) connotes a lifestyle consisting almost entirely of online activity, but in place of a focus on interaction with actual friends and family, the vast majority of time is spent engaging with artificial digital companions.

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How to Feel Safe with AI

by David Brin

Bruce Sterling has lately raised this perennial issue, as did Mike Treder in an excellent piece suggesting that our initial attitudes toward such creatures may color the entire outcome of a purported “technological singularity.” Now I’d like to offer this rumination on giving rights to artificial intelligences.

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Are you ready for this?

by Mike Treder

The first-ever video advertisement will be published in a traditional paper magazine in September.

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Meanwhile, People Are Dying

by Mike Treder

Fantasists ponder a future of superlongevity, superintelligence, and superabundance—as if wishing will make it happen. Meanwhile, people are dying.

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New Rules for the Photoshop Era

by Jamais Cascio

Don’t believe everything that you read. Or pictures that you see. Or videos.

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Making Dogs Smarter Than Humans

by Mike Treder

It’s long been assumed in transhumanist circles that eventually a computer program, a robot, a cyborg, or a genetically engineered human will achieve a far greater level of intelligence than the smartest human.

Why not Fido?

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Creationism, Birtherism, Singularitarianism, and Other Fantasies

by Mike Treder

What do Orly Taitz, Ken Ham, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Max More have in common?

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Who, us worry?

IEET readers appear to be mostly optimistic about our civilization’s chances for survival by the end of the 21st century. In a recent poll, every multiple choice response that was either positive or neutral was selected more often than any of those that were negative.

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Autonomy Without Intelligence?

by Jamais Cascio

Competition requires speed. Wisdom requires patience. In a hyper-computerized world, which one wins?

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Blurring Lines

by Mike Treder

An article I posted here two days ago apparently gave an impression different from what I intended to convey. To begin with, the title (“Drawing Lines”) was poorly chosen, since it implies that I’m in favor of making sharp distinctions between what technoprogressives should and should not believe. The title was only meant to indicate the subject matter—i.e., whether such lines should be drawn—and not to suggest that they definitely ought to be.

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