De facto transhumanist
De facto transhumanist is an expression used to describe opinions of individuals, organisations or media that appear to be transhumanist, but where the word 'transhumanist' is deliberately avoided or may simply be unknown to the person expressing the sentiment. An individual who has made weaker comments towards transhumanism may be a transhumanist sympathiser instead.
Examples[править]
- Brian Cox, scientist and science communicator
- Tom Scott, YouTuber
- Alex Jones, American conspiracy theorist and host of Alex Jones show[1]
Elon Musk since June 2016[2]he's a transhumanist now- Yuval Noah Harari, historian
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebookhe's a transhumanist now- Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google[3]
- Al Gore according to Zoltan Istvan[4]
- Joe Scott, YouTuber[5]
- Vitalik Buterin co-founder of Ethereum is a supporter of SENS[6]
- Robin Li, CEO of Chinese company Baidu [7]
Ross Ulbricht[править]
Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road once said in an interview:
RU: You any more questions before we wrap it up?
Interviewer: Yeah, future outlook, what are you going to do over the next 5 years, one sentence?
RU: I'm into a few things so one sentence isn't enough dammit! But I'm pretty sure I want to start a family in the next 5 years.
Interviewer: Nice, okay
RU: And make more friends and close people I love. I want to focus on being connected to people
Interviewer: And 20 years?
RU: 20 years? I want to have had a substantial positive impact on the future of humanity by that time
Interviewer: You think you're going to live forever?
RU: I think it's a possibility
Interviewer: <laughs>
RU: I honestly do! I think I might live forever in some form by that time, technology's changing so fast
Interviewer: Where can I go from there? Sweet
Sebastian Thrun[править]
Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity, and formerly a lead designer at Google for autonomous cars, expressed the following in a recent interview (emphasis added)[8]:
Technology is making great progress in medical diagnosis, for example. Artificial intelligence systems can already recognize certain skin diseases better than physicians can. Synthetic biology, which can already be used to create cells, is also very interesting. I believe that we will be able to get a grip on most cancers and circulatory diseases. And we will be able to double our life expectancy in the foreseeable future. This is only the beginning of world history. Ninety-nine percent of interesting things have not yet been invented. Artificial intelligence will relieve us of mentally undemanding activities. In the future, we will be able to concentrate on creative work. On the things that are really interesting.
References[править]
- ↑ Alex Jones: Don't Let Satan Steal Space Travel!
- ↑ Elon Musk: Humans Need ‘Neural Lace’ to Compete With AI
- ↑ Silicon Valley Is Trying ot Make Humans Immortal - and Finding Some Success
- ↑ https://galtonsbox.com/2015/05/28/a-conversation-with-zoltan-istvan-the-transhumanist-partys-presidential-candidate-for-the-2016-election/
- ↑ 4 Steps to Immortality: From Neuralink to Nirvana | Answers With Joe
- ↑ https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/913701491638124545
- ↑ Baidu’s Robin Li Talks About Immortality Through AI
- ↑ "Technology gives us super-human powers"