You want increased intelligence, transparency, life expectancy and personal freedom? Curiosity is your primary motivation and you want to reduce or eliminate sleep? Welcome, you’re H+.
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Posted by
Brent.Allsop on 09/09 at 12:23 PM
Thanks for this great survey! I view this as a very powerful expert consensus, to help me or anyone, on what is morally right, and how I should and shouldn’t behave - what our goals and priorities should be and so on. The world so desperately needs this kind of expert moral advice, we can all consult, to enable our morals to keep up with our exponentially growing powers.
For example, clearly we should be 100% open in everything we do. The world is getting better (almost half of all transhumanists are young - in their 20s), the most important thing for us to be working on, is brain enhancement, (not immortality of the body), one world government should be a priority… and so on. We need so much more of this kind of measurement of moral expert consensus, in way more detail, to help us all live better lives. We all can’t be expert in everything, so we need to know, concisely and quantitatively, what all our trusted experts believe, like this, to help us all live moral lives. Thanks for all that participated in this survey, and I hope people will also continue to help participate in other surveys, such as those going on at Canonizer.com.
The world is desperately seeking after trusted moral advice on the best way to behave- transhumanists experts should step up to fill the void!! What, really, do we all believe and value, and how is this trending? Everyone desperately needs to know.
Brent Allsop
Posted by
René Milan on 09/09 at 01:06 PM
Being a white old geezer myself, I was struck, but not surprised, by the predominance of white boys in our ranks, which made the old Paul Kantner song White Boy pop into my head. Without wanting to make any particular point i present the lyrics here:
Where will you go what will you do
What will you see when your night is thru
What can you do where will you go
When the people of this planet send you away from here
My bo
Where do you come from white boy what is your land
Everybody else knows where they come from
You don’t know your home you never did you never can
You can’t find a place in this land
chorus
Blacks and Reds and Apaches and Jews
All know where they come from but you don’t seem to know
Baby do you understand
You appeared in the Caucasus mountains the southern Russia of now
And you spread your peculiar form of death from Mexico to Moscow
You surprised the Europeans the Egyptian too
All of a sudden you appeared on their land
You made mountains for the Incas built pyramids for the Pharoah man
And you grew and you lived by their hands
chorus
Viking Roman fair hair Alexander Emperor slave.
D’you come from the earth D’you come from the sky?
Nobody seems to know You build and you burn create and destroy,
You rule me now fair skin man with an unfair hand.
Where did you come from where were you born
Where were you living when the earth was formed
What can you do where will you go
When the people of this planet send you away from here
My bo…
Posted by
Christian Corralejo on 09/09 at 07:12 PM
“I view this as a very powerful expert consensus, to help me or anyone, on what is morally right, and how I should and shouldn’t behave - what our goals and priorities should be and so on.”
I don’t know about morally right (per say), but I do agree that the surveys really do help summarize who transhumanists generally are and what their views are. Its very curious that the overwhelming majority of transhumanists are white. You better hope people don’t mistake you for a white supremacist sect.
Posted by
Kris Notaro on 09/09 at 11:27 PM
“61.6% more personal freedom
43.5 kinder people”
If moral and ethical obligations exist then enhanced minds should follow them.
If there is more interconnectedness between communities and individual minds at the speed of light then there will be true collective decision making.
If there is more collective decision making using transhuman interconnectedness technologies of minds then there is more of a chance that minds will utilize Direct-Democracy and perhaps Consensus Based Voting.
If the enhanced mind uses Direct-Democracy and perhaps Consensus Based Voting, then one of the fundamental beliefs of Anarchism is then realized.
If enhanced minds actually want to see “more personal freedom” and “kinder people” they will abolish modern day corporatism, which is based on free market capitalism which states that lower prices, wages, and higher profits are preferable.
If the enhanced mind abolishes modern day capitalism in favor of a kinder world and more personal freedom, then they are again leaning towards a type of anti-capitalism Anarchism.
If the enhanced mind prefers Direct-Democracy and perhaps Consensus Based Voting and the abolishment of capitalism, then they are indeed Anarchists.
If the enhanced mind is Anarchist in nature, then we humans should start evolving anarchism immediately.
http://www.facebook.com/AnarchoTranshumanism
Posted by
René Milan on 09/10 at 02:14 PM
I wonder why over half of the participants want to return as male, given that 90.1% already are. My expectation is that I (we) will be able to assume any existing or so far imaginary gender configuration on a temporary basis. But if restricted to the 4 choices given, being male currently, returning as the same is my lowest preference. Any other option implies higher chances for growth. I find this particular result quite discouraging.
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