In this presentation, ethicist Julian Savulescu explores whether bioconservative objections to human enhancement can be rooted in “partiality for humanity”—the idea that we have a moral reason to prefer or protect human nature simply because it is our nature [02:29]. Collaborating with Guy Kahane and Jonathan Pugh, Savulescu analyzes and critiques the late-life arguments of…
Rejecting the two extremes of bioconservatism and libertarian transhumanism, Hughes argues for a third way, “democratic transhumanism,” a radical form of techno-progressivism which asserts that the best possible “posthuman future” is achievable only by ensuring that human enhancement technologies are safe, made available to everyone, and respect the right of individuals to control their own…
Topics covered: Attitudes to the future, Prediction Markets, SciCast, Blockchain currency, Quadratic Voting, Artificial Intelligence Development etc. Notes on interview: People are engaged in extreme futures – heaven or hell scenarios – are people’s attraction towards, or engagement with certain futures informed by evolved biases? Prediction Markets in contrast to narratives about the future informed…
Nick Beckstead is the author of the influential paper ‘On the overwhelming importance of shaping the far future‘.
Interview with James Barrat, Author of “Our Final Invention” (Amazon) Artificial Intelligence helps choose what books you buy, what movies you see, and even who you date. It’s in your smart phone, your car, and it has the run of your house. It makes most of the trades on Wall Street, and controls our transportation,…
In a wide-ranging conversation, historian and philosopher Richard Carrier explores the profound implications of artificial intelligence, Bayesian reasoning, and ethical communication. By rethinking concepts like the Singularity and technological resurrection, Carrier offers a fresh lens through which to view our rapidly evolving future. Here is the video link. Intelligence Explosion vs. The Singularity Carrier prefers…
This interview was conduced late 2012 at the offices of the Future of Humanity Institute in Oxford University at around the time of the Winter Intelligence conference. The simulation argument is continuing to attract a great deal of attention. I regret that I cannot usually respond to individual queries about the argument. Are you living…
Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. He has investigated questions ranging from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the…
Recorded at the Singularity Summit Australia 2010 There are two questions about the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) which are central: The first question concerns the kinds of AI we might achieve — moral, immoral or amoral. The second concerns the ethics of our achieving such an AI. They are more closely related than a…