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Posthuman Pathways: Strange And Awesome Destinations On Humanity’s Future Journeys
Soon humanity may reach out to the galaxy and spread ourselves to every world in it, but in the billions and billions of years to come on those billions and billions of worlds, humanity shall surely diverge down many roads and posthuman pathways. Watch my exclusive...
Cyborg Civilizations
We often contemplate cyborgs, people enhanced by machines, but what would a civilization built upon cybernetics be like? Watch my exclusive video Planetary Archives & Stasis Vaults: https://nebula.tv/videos/isaacarthur-planetary-archives-stasis-vaults Get Nebula...
Roko’s Basilisk: Dangerous Knowledge & All-Powerful AI
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Memetic Weapons
A memetic weapon is a concept that involves using memes—units of cultural information that spread from person to person—to influence, manipulate, or control the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals or groups. Join this channel to get access to perks:...
Sentience vs Sapience
There is a strange and hazy line between the inanimate and things which can feel and sense, and also between more complex animals and humans.
Is Uplifting Ethical?
Try Cell to Singularity, free to play: https://l.linklyhq.com/l/1uNoF Uplifting is the process of altering an animal - or even an alien - to be smarter or able to use technology. Our ability to do this seem inevitable, and with it a host of moral dilemmas. David...
China Brain Hive Minds
The China Brain thought problem suggests that if it is possible for a big enough computer to run an uploaded copy of a human mind, then a sufficiently large number of humans run calculations by hand could too. But if they did, would this represent a Hive Mind?...
Cyborg Armies
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Could Technology Bring You Back To Life?
Medical Technology has revived people who have stopped breathing or whose heart has stopped, but could it revive those who are already brain dead and, if so, for how long? Technological Resurrection: https://youtu.be/Avp1ThZpDNs Produced, Written & Narrated by:...
Transhumanism & Humanity’s Future
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What are Ancestor Simulations… and are we living in one?
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