13:27 UTC Videos of UKH+ talks – UK Humanity+ has frequent meetings, often with very interesting and informative talks. Luckily for everybody not able to attend them, there’s a YouTube channel.
2010-02-12
15:19 UTC Ontociders, Killer Robots and Physical/Digital Reality – Some new links: a new novella "Ontociders" by H+ Assistant Director Marcelo Rinesi ... a recent Esquire Magazine article discussing Singularity and AGI in a serious way... a blog post on physical/digital reality by Tish Shute ... and a reminder of Pernar's novel Jame5
2010-02-08
21:26 UTC How Long Till Human Level AI? What Do the Experts Say? – At the Artificial General Intelligence 2009 conference, we did an "expert assessment study" on the theme of "How Long Till Human Level AI?" ... and the first of the findings have now been released.
2010-01-18
07:09 UTC New members of the Board of Directors – As of today we have six new members of the Humanity+ Board of Directors:
Joel Pitt
Natasha Vita-More
Kristi Scott
David Orban
Amy Li
Michael Vassar
For information about the new members please see their candidate statements.
Three individuals are also leaving the Board at the same time,
James Hughes
Nick Bostrom
Mike Treder
and we all owe these guys huge thanks for their role in shaping [...]
2010-01-07
05:53 UTC News from Russia – These are exciting times for the Russian Transhumanist Movement: They have moved to a new office in a great-looking building in Moscow, and during the past months have worked very hard on organizational training and networking, linked with scientists, engineers, and transhumanists from Russia, Spain, Italy, India, and China (cryonics being an area in which [...]
23:18 UTC H+ Newsletter: Welcome to the 2010s – A new H+ newsletter is now available, just in time for the new year. Summary of global doings by H+ chapters, retrospective of the H+ Summit, a look toward H+ in the 2010s, and more...
2009-12-23
14:00 UTC January 2010 Humanity+ Board Elections – There are going to be six open seats on the H+ Board of Directors in the election slated for January 11-15, 2010. If you're interested to run, this blog post tells you how.
2009-12-21
01:04 UTC China Ascendant? – One of the things China is doing much better than the US, these days, is thinking medium-term and long-term rather than just short-term. China is planning decades ahead, in their technology and science development, in their energy and financial policies, and many other areas as well.
2009-12-16
16:53 UTC Kristi Scott: “The Second Self through Second Life: Mask or Mirror?” – Kristi Scott has published her essay The Second Self through Second Life: Mask or Mirror? as part of the book The Real and the Virtual.
As members of a society, there is a variable and determinable array of both personality types and the combinations in which they fit together. In this particular exploration, there is a [...]