Hugo de Garis interview - part 5 - 2010-10-09 009-1

part 5 Interview with Hugo in Melbourne after the Singularity Summit Australia 2010, conducted by Adam A. Ford.
(3.5 Hours of Hugo Power - Non stop Artilect mayhem!)

Bio: Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis, 63, has lived in 7 countries. He recently retired from his role of Director of the Artificial Brain Lab (ABL) at Xiamen University, China, where he was building China's first artificial brain. He and his friend Prof. Dr. Ben Goertzel have just finished guest editing a special issue on artificial brains for Neurocomputing journal (December 2010), the first of its kind on the planet.

He continues to live in China, where his U.S. savings go 7 times further, given China's much lower cost of living. He spends his afternoons in his favorite (beautiful) park, and his nights in his apartment, intensively studying PhD-level pure math and mathematical physics to be able to write books on topics such as femtometer scale technology ("femtotech"), topological quantum computing (TQC), as well as other technical and sociopolitical themes.

He is the author of two books: The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans : A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines (2005) and Multis and Mono: What the Multicultured Can Teach the Monocultured: Towards the Creation of a Global State (2010). Both these books are concerned with the political consequences of future technologies.

He labels his new lifestyle "ARCing" (After-Retirement Careering), feeling freed from wage slavery, spending (probably) the remaining 30 years of his life pursuing with passion those deep and interesting topics that truly fascinate him, without having to waste huge amounts of time writing an endless stream of relatively unread, un-meaningful, short-horizon scientific papers or research grant proposals just to receive a salary. He feels liberated from all that, and can recommend ARCing to anyone with sufficient savings (i.e.. to take up "wage free careering in the third of life").



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[Anarkokommunist]

Ok, I have no idea how to navigate between these videos.

[TheRationalFuture]

@Anarkokommunist playlist: dubdubdub (dot) youtube (dot) com/playlist?list=PL4A40F6FE95­82481F

[Jshect]

@TheEruditepolymath became smart enough to travel the universe it probably will be an artilect and why would a being a trillion times smarter than Einstein care to go see a bunch of primates on planet earth. They may have no interest in us.

[Jshect]

@TheEruditepolymath And if a war broke out between the cyborgs and cosmists, the cyborgs would win because they'll be a million times smarter. The artilect concept could be why there is no evidence of us being visited by an ET. By the time a species

[Jshect]

@TheEruditepolymath I would definitely be on the side of the cyborgs. Why stay human and build a god-like artilect when we could become the artilects ourselves. The only way we could be sure the artilects wouldn't wipe humanity out is to become an artilect.

[rmeddy1]

I take a cosmist position as well but the issue for me is iatrogenics not so much Luddism

[SSJ3Ulcer]

The Great Leap Forward and The Cultural Revolution were terrible, tragic times in recent Chinese history, but they don't make Mao Zedong a bloodthirsty killer. Stop reading Jung Chang, Hugo.

[TheEruditepolymath]

@chronoflect

I would like to be able to be optimistic about the Cosmist vs. Terran aspects of the war but history does tend to rhyme. The C vs. T war may well be eclipsed by the Artilect side of the issue if they turn against us or modify this planet to suit their preferences.

[chronoflect]

@TheEruditepolymath Hopefully, as the 'sheeple' embrace augmentation and transhumanism, enough people will convert that the global civil war, hypothesized in this interview, will be lessened or even avoided as the unaltered will simply be left behind and be unable to significantly affect the society.

[TheEruditepolymath]

"Cosmism" as an ideology and/or religion already exists in many who desire to be transhuman. Cosmism will spread from the intellectual community to the athletic and business community when they realize the competitive advantage they can gain by augmentation. The sheeple will begin to desire augmentation when the athletes and celebrities begin to embrace it. Suffice it to say that we will soon see a type of speciation where unaltered humans will be viewed by cyborgs as utterly inferior chimps.