Chris Monteiro

Giving a talk on H+Pedia

The purposes of H+Pedia

When you play the game of wikis, you reliably source or die

About

Person involved with the UK Pirate Party and Transhumanist Party (UK)

I do party IT stuff, misc web fielding and consultancy. I prefer my privacy but have a huge digital footprint :(

As of 13/9/2017 I am UK ambassador to the US Transhumanist Party.

If you don't know me for my transhumanist stuff, you probably know me for my cybercrime research.

H+Pedia

As of 5/1/16 I am the principle contributor to H+Pedia, followed by David Wood at #2. I've been editing wikis seriously starting from 2013 when I started tracking Web blocking in the UK and capturing the blocked sites. Since then following the news, research and activism have become strongly related with writing things down on wikis. I like to do this both for my own sake out of habit as my Exobrain, but also as a stepping stone for sharing my ideas and interests with people, many of which are highly niche and are poorly summerised for lay audiences.

Writing a good chunk of a transhumanist wiki by myself was a surprise even to me. The disorganisation of transhumanist organisations and activity mostly based online pains me, and attempts to create numerous authorities, alliances and collectives appeared to me to have sometimes fragmented matters further. Important pockets of researchers, futurists and political theorists were often drowned out by technophiles looking to observe what they consider the inevitable utopia as the result of technological progress.

As a resource that is neither a blog, news site or (primarily) a discussion site, I hope that H+Pedia can fill a much needed space in the transhumanist movement.

Transhumanist writings

https://pirate.london

• Everything Belongs to the Future — a review - Everything Belongs to the Future
• Straw-manning transhumanists for fun and profit
• H+Pedia:Transhumanist FAQ Analysis of the Transhumanist FAQ
• Why we may elect our new AI overlords
• Confused by “Gattaca”? You’re not the only one
• No, transhumanists do not support eugenics, we support super babies
• Transhumanist jargon for the discerning time traveller to 2015
• Jesus 2.0 and the pseudo-immortal future
• Demographic anxiety and transhumanist perspective
• Transhumanist words
• It’s time to write about mind-uploading

Planned writings

• Finish and write about Comparison of futurist related ideologies for the IEET
• Finish (much more to to) Comparison of futurist related political positions and get buy-in from the factions
• Write about Transhumanism definitions for H+ Magazine

Links

• Wikipedia profile
• pirate.london - Blog
• Deku_shrub on Twitter