transhumanists

The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial intelligence, life extension, and cybernetics.

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The cutting edge group known as transhumanists see a beautiful future brought about by artificial intelligence, life extension, and cybernetics.

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(Some may consider me inconsistent in my skepticism, by the way - for instance, I am persuaded by some of the arguments made by so-called transhumanists, and am cautiously optimistic about the emerging science of human life-extension; some of my fellow skeptics consider me completely gullible in this regard as a result.)

James Randi Educational Foundation 2010

SH: definition - in a deeper sense it means that we can begin to conceive of institutions, groups, and individuals who would not self-identify as transhumanists as such by virtue in their invovlement in producing the ends directed knowledge of that community.

Brian.Carnell.Com 2009

SH: definition - in a deeper sense it means that we can begin to conceive of institutions, groups, and individuals who would not self-identify as transhumanists as such by virtue in their invovlement in producing the ends directed knowledge of that community.

Brian.Carnell.Com Natasha Vita-More 2009

I think you wildly over-estimate the actual number of serious people who self-identify as "transhumanists," or "singulariatiarians," or "techno-immortalists," or whatever other identity-formations are bubbling up at the moment, mostly online, around Ayn Raelian modalities of superlative technocentricity, though I have no doubt at all that many people you might be tempted to describe in these terms do indeed exhibit the more familiar reductionisms, scientisms, technocratic antipoliticisms, eerie near-eugenicisms of which

amor mundi 2008

[Three] Name one not crackpot belief common to most self-identified "transhumanists" that is not held by far more people who do not so self-identify.

amor mundi 2008

As I have pointed out many times, "transhumanists" and "singularitarians" are, when all is said and done, a rather marginal sub (cult) ure that never seems to expand beyond a few thousand members or so and are quite self-marginaling in their discourse in a way that suggests this will remain the case for good.

amor mundi 2008

Most of these principles and formulations are the most arrant nonsense imaginable (I have earned that glib assertion through too many words of close analysis, most of which you can read, if you care to do, by clicking the topic anthologies that cap my blogroll), and since these "transhumanists" (and so on) are actually making arguments, well, I read them as such and expose what seem to me to be their mistaken assumptions, their problematic historical contexts, and their anti-democratizing implications wherever I see them.

amor mundi 2008

"transhumanists" and are openly proclaiming that a future where men have fully merged with machines is inevitable.

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