The Evil Twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism by Patrick Wood, 2022
This is the everyman's introduction to Technocracy and Transhumanism. Both are primary to the World Economic Forum's Great Reset, in partnership with the United Nations, to replace Capitalism with an alternative economic system called Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy.
What kind of person prefers human extinction over continued existence? There are a few obvious suspects. One is the “philosophical pessimist” who argues that the world is full of so much human suffering that the nonexistence of our species is better than continued existence. Another is a certain stripe of radical environmentalist who claims that humanity is so destructive to the biosphere, that only our extinction can save what remains of the natural world.
Then there is a third group of people who aren’t bothered by the possibility of human extinction, and indeed some hope to actively bring it about in the coming decades. They represent a more dangerous and extreme form of pro-extinctionist ideology that is fairly widespread within Silicon Valley. In fact, some of the most powerful people in the tech world are members of this group, such as the co-founder of Google, Larry Page." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/team-human-vs-team-posthuman-which-side-are-you-on/
I look forward to some life-changing conversations at TransVision 2024 - which takes place in the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands on Sat 20th and Sun 21st Jan, with an additional optional workshop on the afternoon of Fri 19th Jan. Here's a short preview #transhumanismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN7-w_VarLs
We'd like to take a moment and further explain our most misunderstood journal topic: #transhumanism
Specifically what we at Radon mean when we use the term.
Radon advocates specifically for anarchist-transhumanism under a social anarchist lens.
We are actively fighting to reclaim the word transhumanism from the loud right-libertarian technocrats who are busy attaching their names to the ideology.
To be clear, we reject techno-libertarianism and the tech bros. We know that there is no path forward that benefits society while #capitalism exists and the profit motive sticks around to ensure a cyberpunk dystopian future.
“Transhumanism demands that we interrogate our desires and values beyond the happenstance of What Is, accepting neither the authority of arbitrary social constructs like gender nor a blind fealty to how our bodies presently function.”
#transhumanism is the only solution to social de-massification and the final fling of the modern western society. Technology can free us from our economic, physical and mental limitations, without forgetting our human nature. We can overcome this #liquid society. @sociology
My new art project is to organise a conference on transhumance livestock rearing in the same venue and at the same time as a conference on #transhumanism.
I'm a slightly autistic introvert, interested in a lot of things like surfing, design, technologies and computer science. Russian (native), English (foreign). 35+ yrs old.
I'm Novikov, named after the self-consistency conjecture. I'm currently a #physics student who wants to maximize understanding of the universe
I'm also an #anarchist, which makes me interested in collaborative decision-making, abolishing all forms of domination, and maximizing human agency (especially with technology via #transhumanism)
I'm here to make connections and expand my capacity for cooperation.
Suppose I told you that in 10 years, the world as you know it will be over. You will live in a sort of paradise. You won’t get sick, or age, or die. Eternal life will be yours! Even better, your mind will be blissfully free of uncertainty — you’ll have access to perfect knowledge. Oh, and you’ll no longer be stuck on Earth. Instead, you can live up in the heavens.
If I told you all this, would you assume that I was a religious preacher or an AI researcher?
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Mostly, though, the figures spouting a vision of AGI as a kind of techno-eschatology — from Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, to Elon Musk, who wants to link your brain to computers — express their ideas in secular language. They’re either unaware or unwilling to admit that the vision they’re selling derives much of its power from the fact that it’s plugging into age-old religious ideas.
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The influential ninth-century philosopher John Scotus Eriugena, for example, insisted that part of what it meant for Adam to be formed in God’s image was that he was a creator, a maker. So if we wanted to restore humanity to the God-like perfection of Adam prior to his fall, we’d have to lean into that aspect of ourselves. Eriugena wrote that the “mechanical arts” (a.k.a. technology) were “man’s links with the Divine, their cultivation a means to salvation.”
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This wasn’t tech for tech’s sake, or for profit’s sake. Instead, tech progress was synonymous with moral progress. By recovering humanity’s original perfection, we could usher in the kingdom of God. As Noble writes, “Technology had come to be identified with transcendence, implicated as never before in the Christian idea of redemption.”
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Transhumanists, effective altruists, and longtermists have inherited the view that the end times are nigh and that technological progress is our best shot at moral progress. For people operating within this logic, it seems natural to pursue AGI. Even though they view AGI as a top existential risk, they believe we can’t afford not to build it given its potential to catapult humanity out of its precarious earthbound adolescence (which will surely end any minute!) and into a flourishing interstellar adulthood (so many happy people, so much moral value!). Of course we ought to march forward technologically because that means marching forward morally!
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I recommend reading the whole thing instead of just these excerpts.
Book 1 will be all elements listed in this pic. This will serve to paint a picture of the Ladies 2.0 universe that all other books are in. But, all other tie-in books will house the #techrotica element I've been posting about. I am serializing this book on #medium (link on profile) and the following eBook apps: