Month: October 2012

To answer your question… Imagine the Greek economy a few years ago as a buss, speeding out of control, down a steep hill. You are watching this scene unfold in slow-motion. Some bystanders can see that there is huge drop ahead, and they call out to the buss-driver to brake immediately. The buss-driver keeps his…

I have been invited to attend http://www.spaceacad.org/event.php in january 2013. (Assuming the world still exists then). I would hold two presentations there and whereas I have two solid ideas for a presentation clearly I have no funding. Attendance costs are 300e, and travel costs would be in the order of 500e. I assume additional costs…

Source Cosmism, in its modern version formulated by Ben Goertzel in his wonderful book A Cosmist Manifesto, is my personal philosophy. Two very interesting recent discussions on the KurzweilAI Forums, “Why New Agers will never accept Terasem” and “Cosmism, Terasem etc. – what is the missing ingredient?,” have interesting thoughts on how to make it…

The US is having an arterial bleeding and is calling it an orgasm.

(source for one, two, three, four and five) The news of the latest Tanzanian deepwater oil discovery broke on an otherwise sleepy Saturday in March. Thirty years before, a find of the same size might have gotten two column inches somewhere in the back pages of a few newspapers of record, but this was not…

From BillMoyers.com: The One Percent is not only increasing their share of wealth — they’re using it to spread millions among political candidates who serve their interests. Example: Goldman Sachs, which gave more money than any other major American corporation to Barack Obama in 2008, is switching alliances this year; their employees have given $900,000…

Wall street is playing Chess with the rest of humanity. Literally. They think they are winning the game, but they don’t realize that every time a piece is killed from the board humanity adds two new pawns anywhere they like at the last row. It’s like attacking a Hydra with a knife. Wall street is…

Congratulations Hank, with Transhumanity.com.

If there is one “transhumanist”-inclined movement out there I really admire and appreciate it is Terasem. I had the pleasure of interacting with its founder shortly before and after my attendance at Transvision 2010. For those who don’t know, the founder of Terasem is the very successful Martine Rothblatt, who was at one time the…

At the end of the fall of the iron curtain, about the early 1990s, “market liberals” basically abandoned the russian people and surrendered them in the hands of organized crime. The liberalization of free markets in Russia left humans in a pervasive state of poverty, crime, squallor, dirt and despair. Liberalization changed a “pretty dismal”…

Oil is a godsend. Seriously, oil is amazing. It is the biggest cake not just in history – it is the biggest gift since the Goddess invented plate tectonics. And guess what, humans since the Hindenburg have measured everything by the context of this affluence. All things in our current world are taken for granted…

The freedom to do “damn well as you please” is a fairly rational one and I support it. I myself, Khannea Suntzu, are no stranger to the desire to bloody well do as I please, and be left to my own devices. The problem however with the fundamentalist “Libertarian” ethic is that society operates in…

The most toxic quote of our age. “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” (Churchill) Why? Well it is most like fighting a severe disease like cancer. One very common treatment for cancer is chemotherapy/radiotherapy combination. This treatment sucks balls. Nobody…

By: Nick Meador Published: October 10, 2012 Source For a few decades now, signs have gradually accumulated in American culture that something is very wrong with our basic notions of work, careers, and “making a living.” The end of the 1990s stands out in particular, when many pointed criticisms of the current work paradigm appeared…

DANVILLE, KY—Lying fully nude with his wrists and ankles tied to the corners of his hotel room bed, an intense, sweat-drenched Paul Ryan reportedly told his staffers today that the only way he could prepare for Thursday night’s vice presidential debate was if they slapped his naked, bound body harder and harder. Sources confirmed the…

First – the perfect genetic human specimen. I want the majority of women in the world to have the freedom to look like this. Youth and skin pigmentation included and that would entail a massive upgrade. Forever. At least for as long as they want to. Penis optional. Now we have established that, on towards…

In order of concern. Human-Man global warming is going to be far worse than the worst expectations. It has to be dealt with and the cost will be gruesomely expensive. Six degrees average temperature rise means we lose 99% of all life on the planet, and that includes humans. Oil and other petrochemical sourced of…

A REALLY Inconvenient Truth: Dan Miller from The Berkeley Cybersalon on FORA.tv

Cornelius?