(PDF) The Promise and Peril of Emerging Technology for Brain Enhancement
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The Coming Technological Singularity
(Kurzweil's most recent book was just released after a delay caused by the pandemic which was even nearer. The author's method seems the same. Updated for DL and LLMs. The Law of Accelerating Returns. A question is how society reacts to bypassing all the biology stuff and if that is really better. The new book is a smooth read, in any case; half notes. And, of course, the field continues to claim progress although critics again say it has stalled. The Winter may have been so it did not fall into the wrong hands right off. So this wave is out finding applications. The next is yet to be revealed. And at some point, the tech is supposed to be making the announcements. In the book, there is no longer a need for legends. At least to the neo cloud cortex. In the meantime, Wikipedia still has them as one of the researchers that has not left Google. Heretics are uncatalogued.)
Blade Runner 2049 Ending, Explained
(Deckard & K may still have been tracked by Wallace himself, perhaps using those drone sensors to interface a satellite. They would have revealed the location of the miracle anyway leading to an all-out confrontation between the various groups. The tragic stake is that no one solves their mysteries after all. Unless there was a backup before the Blackout. Or they could somehow convert the Nexus afterward using another revelation. Recall the Engineers in Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Or a hidden memory. The audience may expect Stelline to have transmitted something in her craft. That may or may not require natural people as a humanist dependency. Which would irk purists. Then again, Sebastian may not have been the least promiscuous.)
The Friar Who Became the Vatican’s Go-To Guy on A.I.
(Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty, 2019, claimed that inequality is a result of ideology.)
Posthumanism’s Revolt Against Responsibility | Commonweal Magazine
Creative Encounters of a Posthuman Kind – Anthropocentric Law, Artificial Intelligence, and Art
JD Bernal-The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Re-thinking “Human-centric” AI: An Introduction to Posthumanist Critique
Philosophical Disquisitions: Axiological Futurism: The Systematic Study of the Future of Values
Transhumanism, Posthumanism, And The “Cyborg Identity”
Rodin, D. (2015) Posthuman Life.