Brian Greene on Artificial Intelligence, the Importance of Fundamental Physics, Alien Life, and the Possible Future of Our Civilization
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Brian Greene on Artificial Intelligence, the Importance of Fundamental Physics, Alien Life, and the Possible Future of Our Civilization

March 14th was Albert Einstein’s birthday, and also PI day, so it was a fitting day to be interviewing well known theoretical physicist and string theorist Brian Greene – the author of a number of books including, The Elegant Universe, Icarus at the Edge of Time, The Fabric of the Cosmos, and The Hidden Reality!…

Wireheading with David Pearce
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Wireheading with David Pearce

Is the Hedonistic Imperative equivalent to wire-heading? People are often concerned about the future being a cyber-puink dystopia where people are hard wired into pleasure centers like smacked out like lotus eating milk-sops devoid of meaningful existence. Does David Pearce’s Hedonistic Imperative entail a future where we are all in thrall to permanent experiential orgasms…

Longevity & the Future of Fun with Jamais Cascio
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Longevity & the Future of Fun with Jamais Cascio

I asked Jamais Cascio about The Hedonistic Imperative & longevity as part of my interview with him, and got some interesting responses Cascio warns about wireheading* – Jamais urges cautious about changing cognitive systems to increase pleasure because we may lack a sufficient understanding of the 2nd or 3rd order effects – which isn’t to…

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Media series with James Hughes

James Hughes the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, is a bioethicist and sociologist at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut where he teaches health policy and serves as Director of Institutional Research and Planning. Dr. Hughes is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of Humanity+, the Neuroethics Society,…

Politics & the Future – Panel with James Hughes, David Wood & Steve Fuller
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Politics & the Future – Panel with James Hughes, David Wood & Steve Fuller

The panelists are Steve Fuller, David Wood, James Hughes Podcast of panel here   Discussion points: Effective Futurist Politics Futurist caucuses within existing political establishments “the future of politics” in the sense of “Politics 2.0” Political struggles within transhumanism Transhumanist politicisation controversy Transhumanism definition controversies Comparison of futurist related political positions Transhumanist political organisations Transhumanist…

Curing Aging – Bill Andrews on Staying Healthy Indefinitely
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Curing Aging – Bill Andrews on Staying Healthy Indefinitely

Bill discusses the groundbreaking science of ‘telomere biology’ – Bill sees this as the first and only emergent technology that holds the promise of treating and reversing age-related diseases, including aging itself. The Book ‘Curing Aging’ can be found on Amazon “Topics discussed include the biological basis for the human aging process, the basic science…

Michio Kaku – A History of a Time to Come
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Michio Kaku – A History of a Time to Come

Science, Technology & the Future interviews Dr. Michio Kaku on Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity, Biotech and Nanotechnology What is it that is driving this revolution? How do you think your background in Theoretical Physics shape your view on the future of the mind? Intelligence enhancement, Internet of the mind – brain-net, like a hive…

Michio Kaku – The Future of the Mind – Intelligence Enhancement & the Singularity
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Michio Kaku – The Future of the Mind – Intelligence Enhancement & the Singularity

Scifuture interview with popular scientist Michio Kaku on the Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance & Empower the Mind! The audio of this interview is found here. Dr. Michio Kaku advocates thinking about some of the radical Transhumanist ideas we all know and love – here he speaks on the frontiers of Neuroscience, Intelligence Enhancement, the…

Jamais Cascio – The Future and You! Security, Privacy, AI, Geoengineering
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Jamais Cascio – The Future and You! Security, Privacy, AI, Geoengineering

Jamais Cascio discusses the Participatory Panopticon, Privacy & Secrecy, the ramifications of Disconnecting from the Chorus, what it means to be a Futurist, the Arc of Human Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, the Need for Meaning, Building Agents to Listen to Us, WorldChanging.com / OpenTheFuture.com, Geoengineering and the Viridian Green movement. We pollute our data-streams, to control…

The Singularity & Prediction – Can there be an Intelligence Explosion? – Interview with Marcus Hutter
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The Singularity & Prediction – Can there be an Intelligence Explosion? – Interview with Marcus Hutter

Can there be an Intelligence Explosion?  Can Intelligence Explode? The technological singularity refers to a hypothetical scenario in which technological advances virtually explode. The most popular scenario is the creation of super-intelligent algorithms that recursively create ever higher intelligences. What could it mean for intelligence to explode? We need to provide more careful treatment of…