#futurism
# tech
Tech evangelists seem really worried about making friends with robots and forgetting that we can always override their programming.
# tech
Transhumanism is a common theme in comic books. But which one of the scenarios they present has the most scientific merit?
# tech
Philosopher Nick Bostrom is still barking up the same, fundamentally wrong tree of emergent super-intelligence.
# tech
Time gives the Singularity and its prophet the kid glove treatment, glossing over the scientific and technical issues with a wave of starry eyed credulity.
# tech
The tech industry didn't suddenly start promising disruptive revolutions with every new gadget and app. It's been doing that since its first days.
# tech
Singularitarian arguments for the seeming inevitability of artificial super-intelligent are little more than wild extrapolations of pop sci cliches.
# space
Tau Zero Foundation's founder's interpretation of the Earth's energy generation projections profoundly misunderstands its own point.
# space
Dougal Dixon has seen the future of the human species and it's not a fun or good one...
# tech
IEEE is not impressed with Ray Kurzweil's cold readings about the future of computing and technology.
# tech
Michael Anissimov has had it with transhumanists ready to hurry up and wait for technology to solve every problem humanity faces by merely existing.
# sex
Surprisingly, one of the topics Singularitarians don't bring up about the utopian virtual worlds to which we'll upload our minds is just how much sex there would be.
# tech
Jaron Lanier went from VR pioneer to Luddite afraid of transhumanists' supposed agenda of mass dehumanization.
# tech
While utopians dream of tomorrow's world, they often forget that we can't take anything for granted when it comes to humanity's future.
# tech
A superintelligent computer would be the last invention humanity could ever want. Figuratively and literally.
# tech
Predictions are difficult, especially about the future. But what futurist ideas seem to be on the right track and more likely to happen than not?
