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Transhumanism…https://t.co/jjo1PqXyqw #mscedc

Transhumanism…https://t.co/jjo1PqXyqw #mscedc

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‘The technological singularity…our destiny is to merge with technology in the form of artificial super intelligence.’

Re. transhumanists: ‘Most of these people are extreme rationalists…close to the centre of power.’

‘…an extreme almost irrational faith in rationality…’

‘Steve Wozniak is convinced we’re going to end up as pets for superhuman intelligence…’

‘These people believe in heaven, they just think that we’re going to have to build it ourselves…’

‘A release from the anxiety about mortality…’

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ https://t.co/RhgMCOMVi2 #mscedc

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ https://t.co/RhgMCOMVi2 #mscedc

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Harari’s thinking here is at times, determinist, but the discussion of transhumanist ideas is interesting: “I think that Homo sapiens as we know them will probably disappear within a century or so, not destroyed by killer robots or things like that, but changed and upgraded with biotechnology and artificial intelligence into something else, into something different. The timescale for that kind of change is maybe a century.”