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I don’t know how to frame it outside the Epstein case if the title is to be used. Perhaps the title can be amended. @dang, if you read the NYT article, it has
by jelliclesfarm 7y ago
I don’t know how to frame it outside the Epstein case if the title is to be used. Perhaps the title can be amended.
@dang, if you read the NYT article, it has nothing to do with Epstein’s lurid activities but about how he conned some of the greatest minds in science to join him and lavishing money to universities and research projects to entirely poison the pond.
By association, he has assassinated the transhumanist movement. I think this is an important thing to discuss.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism : generic wiki entry on transhumanism
Everything from eugenics to AI/tech singularity can be said to have emerged from transhumanist ideas. It’s discouraging to see it constantly battered by the villains and being made more fringe’y/weird when most of the things we identify as longevity, robotics, ai, singularity, nanotechnology, cybernetics..all emerge from the need to ‘transcend the limits of the condition of humanity’..
Maybe amending the title would help?