This article was published at Transhumanity.net, and was written by Zeev Kirsch http://transhumanity.net/articles/entry/transhumanisms-schism-are-we-motivated-by-greed-or-humanism. I’ve been observing the general tenor of transhumanism, via video footage on various speakers and events, essays published on the internet, and from speaking to self-identifying transhumanists by phone directly. I believe transhumanism is having an identity crisis, or possibly a schism. […]
Archive for January, 2013
Transhumanism’s Schism – are we motivated by Greed or Humanism?
Posted: 28th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedThis article was written by Arjen Kamphuis, for HuffPoUK (lol) and was first published here. Used without explicit permission because that’s how I roll. However Arjen is a very dear friend and he kicks ass. I redacted the links “a little” for entertainment value. At their yearly conference the Dutch The National Cyber Security Center […]
IS HUMANITY HEADED FOR UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA?
Posted: 22nd January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in Uncategorized(Source) If there’s one thing the past teaches us, it’s that human beings are cruel and capricious assholes, short-sighted and bloody-minded for whom everything always ends in tears. Our grandparents still remember a war that killed everyone who wasn’t our grandparents and ate a third of the entire population of Poland. On the evidence of […]
‘Population Bomb’ scientist: ‘Nobody’ has the right to ‘as many children as they want’
Posted: 22nd January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in Uncategorized(source) A Stanford professor and author of the Population Bomb recently published a paper in a scientific journal re-emphasizing climate change and population growth pose existential threats to humanity and in an interview with Raw Story said that giving people the right to have as many children as they want is “a bad idea.” “The […]
World news – woman pregnant with Chimpansee
Posted: 21st January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in Uncategorized(link) This is about as important as it gets, and the Libertarian Transhumanist keep in denial. “Those people” just want to postpone acceptance of this fact as long as possible because it’ll mean more taxes. Sadly, the longer we wait changing society to accommodate the shift in work patterns, the more convulsive the transition. J’accuse!
Legal Expert To High Court: Israel Could Be Tried In Hague If It Evicts West Bank Villagers
Posted: 18th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in Uncategorized(Source) The expulsion of Palestinian residents from an army live-fire zone in the West Bank would enable the Palestinians to address the International Criminal Court. That is the legal opinion attached to a revised petition being submitted Wednesday to the High Court of Justice against the eviction. The petition relates to some 30,000 dunams in […]
I coin this term today. The neologism is a contraction between “Fema” and “Favella”. The term describes large sprawling ghettoes of endless quickly constructed container and trailer (and many other sorts of improvized, cheap) dwellings in designated areas along the sprawling US metroplex areas. Femavellas’s primary raison d’etre is to offer living space tens of […]
Paul Krugman is Wrong about the Rise of the Robots
Posted: 18th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in Uncategorized(source) Paul Krugman has recently taken a keen interest in the rise of robots and automation — an issue that I have been focusing on since the publication of my book on this subject back in 2009. In a recent post, Krugman says the following: Smart machines may make higher GDP possible, but also reduce […]
IRL Equivalent of Mrs SunTzu, allegedly
Posted: 17th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in Uncategorized60 Minutes on Technological Unemployment
Posted: 14th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedThere are many things you can do and I want you to start today.
Posted: 14th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedThe reverse of The Enlightenment, the descent of American, Western, or global culture from previous heights of reason and human values. “To our minds, the fundamental cure, reducing the scale of the human enterprise (including the size of the population) to keep its aggregate consumption within the carrying capacity of Earth, is obvious but too […]
BY PATRICK DOHERTY The strategic landscape of the 21st century has finally come into focus. The great global project is no longer to stop communism, counter terrorists, or promote a superficial notion of freedom. Rather, the world must accommodate 3 billion additional middle-class aspirants in two short decades — without provoking resource wars, insurgencies, and […]
Is it time to call “Capitalism” an existential threat yet?
Posted: 8th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedA few years ago I argued that rampant disparity in terms of affluence and poverty (or opportunity versus marginalization) in the world might be interpreted as an existential risk. In other words, a very large number of human beings might literally be pushed in to premature death by the combination of (a) disparity and (b) […]
Life Among the Plutocrats — What Unimaginable Wealth Does to a Person
Posted: 7th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedThey control our politics, shape our societies, outsource our jobs. (source) Last year the Occupy movement brought the subject of inequality into public debate, and especially the inequality between those of us in the 99 per cent and the happy few in the one per cent. But Chrystia Freeland has been studying the happy few […]
What might a world without work look like?
Posted: 4th January 2013 by Khannea Suntzu in UncategorizedThe human species is based on ubiquitous procreation. Procreation in the animal kingdom is based on a range of procreation strategies, and even in the animal kingdom many of these are generated based on non-volition. In most species males are bigger than the females and consequently more physically powerful. I witnessed that last summer with […]