Max More - The Singularity and Transhumanism

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Founder of the Extropy Institute, Max More has written many articles espousing the philosophy of transhumanism and the transhumanist philosophy of extropy, most importantly his Principles of Extropy (currently version 3.11).

In a 1990 essay "Transhumanism: Toward a Futurist Philosophy", he introduced the term "transhumanism" in its modern sense.

Here is a link to the article mentioned in the interview "On Becoming Posthuman" - http://www.maxmore.com/becoming.htm

Quotes:
"We have achieved two of the three alchemists' dreams: We have transmuted the elements and learned to fly. Immortality is next." — Max More, On becoming posthuman.

"No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity." — Max More, On becoming posthuman.

"People's freedom to innovate technologically is highly valuable, even critical, to humanity. This implies a range of responsibilities for those considering whether and how to develop, deploy, or restrict new technologies. Assess risks and opportunities using an objective, open, and comprehensive, yet simple decision process based on science rather than collective emotional reactions. Account for the costs of restrictions and lost opportunities as fully as direct effects. Favor measures that are proportionate to the probability and magnitude of impacts, and that have the highest payoff relative to their costs. Give a high priority to people's freedom to learn, innovate, and advance." — Max More, The Proactionary Principle.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Transhumanism
• technological singularity
• technology
• max more
• extropy
• singularity
• philosophy
• principles of extropy
• The Singularity Is Near
• Surge
• s curves
• precautionary principle
• On Becoming Posthuman

[RimsterVision]

Great job with this interview. Much more profesional than quite a bit of your other interviews. More like this, and you will get more viewers. I also recommend you maybe send this video out to a few Transhumanist/tech groups. "Brainy" videos like these never get many views but I feel you could get more than you are getting. The more people exposed to these ideas the better!

[cavhoki]

this guy looks and sounds like sting

[G1Petey]

fuck the robots only the rich will be able 2 pull it off!! there probly allready robots out there and we where created in there image. i dont care as long as they dont attack my people. love the world

[KhanneaSuntzu]

Be careful Max, Sarah Connor is getting closer, and she's an  armed and deadly luddite.

[SunriseFestival]

i want to plug and usb memory stick into my head

[OneasAsum]

That's a nice interview.

I think the ``fits and stars'' description of the Singularity is only part of the story. I agree that that is how technology (outside of such technologies as computer processing power) has proceeded in many areas (e.g. medical); but once nanotech and good narrow AI (need not even be full AGI) arrives, the rate of change across the whole spectrum of technology will be undeniably Singularity-like.

[szabi76]

excellent interview. thank you!