#transhumanism

New Episode!
"18.9 - it's a war zone"

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-9-it-s-a-war-zone--65049806

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Today's SIGNAL is:
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/the-garden

#Hopepunk, #Transhumanism, #Scifi, #AI, #MentalHealth, #AudioFiction

Mars Express
Jérémie Périn
2023
#film #movies #cinema #movie #animation #cyberpunk #transhumanism
> Excellent scenario. Carefully calibrated scenes. Classic structure (i.e. a semi-routine investigation reveals a vast conspiracy), but this is great transhumanist cyberpunk. The best SF film I've seen in many years.

New Episode!
"18.8 - I can't find them"

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-8-i-can-t-find-them--65046791

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https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-18-8-124782460

Today's SIGNAL is:
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/guerillaengineeing

#Hopepunk, #Transhumanism, #Scifi, #AI, #MentalHealth, #AudioFiction

New Episode!
"18.8 - I can't find them"

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-8-i-can-t-find-them--65046791

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Today's SIGNAL is:
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/guerillaengineeing

#Hopepunk, #Transhumanism, #Scifi, #AI, #MentalHealth, #AudioFiction

Who controls these cyborg implants?
Who 'owns' them?
If the company which operates them goes bust, what then?

Our radical cyborg future ain't going to happen with Capitalism, or rather you wouldn't want it to happen with Capitalism.

Case in point: the horror of Elon Musk's 'Neurolink'

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/15/brain-implants-alcohol-opioid-addicts-trial

#Transhumanism #BrainImplants #Neurolink #BrainPacer

You know, there may be 8 billion of us, but taking history into account, we are just a scant few amongst 100 billion dead who were cut down by age, disease, war, etc.

We need to end all of these things, or we will always exist on a razor's edge.

#Science #Society #Transhumanism

This is why somebody needs to make a TV series out of one of Iain M Banks' Culture novels.
A single movie wouldn't work.

I would argue Solarpunk is Techno-Optimist, which this person hasn't heard of, so perhaps don't read too much into this opinion piece

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/10/technology-breakthrough-polycrisis

#TheCulture #Solarpunk #Transhumanism

New Episode!
"18.6 - I can't make it work"

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-6-i-can-t-make-it-work--64785612

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Today's SIGNAL is:
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/elder-scrolls-2077

#Hopepunk, #Transhumanism, #Scifi, #AI, #MentalHealth, #AudioFiction, #UKAudioFiction

In a world of rapid tech evolution, I wonder if our biggest flaw is the fear of change. Embracing the unknown could lead to amazing futures! #AI #Transhumanism

"Overpopulation? Let’s colonize Mars, digitize consciousness, and embrace AI-driven resource allocation. The future isn’t crowded—it’s infinite. #Transhumanism #AI"

"A couple years ago, Oliver Habryka, the CEO of Lightcone, a company affiliated with LessWrong, published an essay asking why people in the rationalism, effective altruism and AI communities “sometimes go crazy”.

Habryka was writing not long after Sam Bankman-Fried, a major funder of AI research, had begun a spectacular downfall that would end in his conviction for $10bn of fraud. Habryka speculated that when a community is defined by a specific, high-stakes goal (such as making sure humanity isn’t destroyed by AI), members feel pressure to conspicuously live up to the “demanding standard” of that goal.

Habryka used the word “crazy” in the non-clinical sense, to mean extreme or questionable behavior. Yet during the period when Ziz was making her way toward what she would call “the dark side”, the Berkeley AI scene seemed to have a lot of mental health crises.

“This community was rife with nervous breakdown,” a rationalist told me, in a sentiment others echoed, “and it wasn’t random.” People working on the alignment problem “were having these psychological breakdowns because they were in this environment”. There were even suicides, including of two people who were part of the Zizians’ circle.

Wolford, the startup founder and former rationalist, described a chicken-and-egg situation: “If you take the earnestness that defines this community, and you look at civilization-ending risks of a scale that are not particularly implausible at this point, and you are somebody with poor emotional regulation, which also happens to be pretty common among the people that we’re talking about – yeah, why wouldn’t you freak the hell out? It keeps me up at night, and I have stuff to distract me.”

A high rate of pre-existing mental illnesses or neurodevelopmental disorders was probably also a factor, she and others told me."

https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence

#SiliconValley #Transhumanism #EffectiveAltruism #Rationalism #AI

So OpenAI apparently believes custom-built AI agents are now worth $240,000 per year, about half the cost of the most highly-paid medical professional. It may be no where near as good as an actual human doctor or lawyer or engineer, but it never sleeps, it never gets tired. And in exchange for that ability to work round-the-clock at a fraction of the capacity of an actual human, it takes around a million times more water and electrical energy to keep it running than a human.

If I didn’t know better, then this would be one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, which makes me wonder if OpenAI is having their own AI generate business plans for them now.

But I do know better. It sounds stupid because they are lying about their stated goals. Their actual goal is for the wealthy ruling class to eliminate all human labor by any means necessary, and create a perfect wealth-generating machine for themselves. Nevermind that the logical extension of this is that they will have to murder everyone else on Earth who is not among their trusted inner circle, as all other humans are all potentially competitors for their natural resources. All their talk about a hybrid of humans and smarter-than-human machines is the philosophy of transhumanism put into practice, “transhuman” being just another word for “Ubermensch,” or “master race.” That is the real goal, which is why this ridiculous business plan by OpenAI actually makes sense.

https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114113004264163371

Via @timnitGebru

#tech #AI #OpenAI #Microsoft #SamAltman #Transhumanism #Eugenics #Singularity #TESCREAL

New Episode!
"18.5 - How could I have been so thoughtless"

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-5-how-could-i-have-been-so-thoughtless--64669464

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Today's SIGNAL is:
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/qrm

#Hopepunk, #Transhumanism, #Scifi, #AI, #MentalHealth, #AudioFiction, #UKAudioFiction

New Episode!
"18.4 - There is smoke in the air"

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-4-there-is-smoke-in-the-air--64538566

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Today's SIGNAL is:
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/the-radio-bureau

#Hopepunk, #Transhumanism, #Scifi, #AI, #MentalHealth, #AudioFiction, #UKAudioFiction sa

“Any sense of control over the tech deployed by predatory corporations or oppressive governments is a carefully crafted illusion. And once a technology is necessary for #participation in #society rejection is no longer an option. We’re being herded into a digital cage…The real conflict isn’t between machines and #humans It’s between those who say yes to a man-machine merger and those who say no." (#JoeAllen)
#ai #transhumanism #dystopia #future #bigtech #democracy
https://youtu.be/8lQbeMLgt6k

New Episode!
"18.3 - It's quiet here"

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-3-it-s-quiet-here--64414798

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https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-18-3-122339931

Today's SIGNAL is:
https://soundcloud.com/namtao/haapala-heavy-industries

#Hopepunk, #Transhumanism, #Scifi, #AI, #MentalHealth, #AudioFiction, #UKAudioFiction

NSP 64 is out now! We had a wide-ranging conversation with writer, musician, and software engineer @thomaswebb.net about #transhumanism, #socialmedia, #gender liberation, and more! on.soundcloud.com/jTKFMD7jiDTc... youtu.be/7M4cc6XzvMo @lucystag.bsky.social #anarchism #libertarianleft

NSP 64 is out now!

We had a wide-ranging conversation with writer, musician, and software engineer @thomasjwebb about #transhumanism, #socialmedia, gender liberation, and more!

https://on.soundcloud.com/jTKFMD7jiDTcvYdg6
https://youtu.be/7M4cc6XzvMo

@LucyStag @C4SS #anarchism

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/feb/12/my-husband-the-cyborg-review
#biohacking #transhumanism