IEET’s Top Essays and Videos in August

Aug 31, 2012

What did IEET visitors read, watch and argue about in August?  Statistics reveal a big interest in enhancement, the singularity, life extension, and tech innovation.

Top Eleven Articles in Hits

Wake Up, Deathists! - You DO Want to LIVE 10,000 Years! by Hank Pellissier   4,589 hits
Oscar Pistorius Now… Elective Amputation in 10 Years?  by Nikki Olson   3,322
Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness, Just Like Us  by George Dvorsky   3,218
Cognitive Machines Offer Many Benefits to Humanity  by Dick Pelletier 2,957
What Would Transhumanists Do With 100 Extra Years of Life? Space Travel? Alien Sex? Helping Others?  by Hank Pellissier 2,872
The Male Bias in Archeology - A Commonsense, Feminist Revision of Pre-History  by piero scaruffi   2,352
17 Definitions of the Technological Singularity  by Nikola Danayov   2,306
Who is Afraid of New Atheism?  by Leo Igwe   2,170
Smartphone of the Future - An Explosive Wealth of Possibilities  by Michell Zappa 2,104
Do All Transhumanists Want Immortality? No? Why Not?  by Hank Pellissier 2,058
Uploading Won’t Help You by Patrick Hopkins   2,020

Top Seven Articles in Comments

How to Cope With Death - the Cosmist ‘Third Way’ by Giulio Prisco   49 comments
Transhumanism and Anarchism by Kris Notaro   46
Privacy and Secrecy are Not the Same Thing - My Refutation of Cryptography by L. S. McGill   29
Why Iran Should Worry by piero scaruffi   28
Wake Up, Deathists! - You DO Want to LIVE 10,000 Years! by Hank Pellissier   25
Uploading Won’t Help You by Patrick Hopkins 21
Who is Afraid of New Atheism?  by Leo Igwe   21 (thread has been cut)

 

Top Five Videos in Hits

Extreme Future Fest 2012 promo with Rachel Haywire   1,866 hits
“I’m 80% Girl, 20% Boy” 871 hits
Meat the Future  858
Do You Want To Live Forever? with Aubrey de Grey 856
Eat, Fast and Live Longer