The singularity institute recently completed a $100k challenge drive (for $200k total). If transhumanism/singularity research could get the kind of funding malaria gets from these philanthropists, the world would be a far better place.
Sure there's some nice environemental theory, but it comes down to calling for laws. There are very few environmentalist libertarians. It tends to run strong among the anti-IP types.
There were electrodes inserted in the primary motor cortex that went the other way. So someone could control a simple video game with the mind. I don't see any preference either way--both are important if you want to play video games as well as watch movies.
That would be the most interesting, a human brain in a machine. Just hook up the cranial nerves and spinal cord and you're all set. We're pretty sure from amputations that you're still sentient after losing limbs.
We already have artificial cochleas and retinas interfacing to cranial nerves.
It should go through. Coders in general are not required to be deterministic, so some pattern recognition would have to go into identifying the watermark.
I talked a bit with Tyler Emerson at the singinst.org about this. I think we can augment ourselves even as we work the other way to build a posthuman from scratch.
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It's based on science. And doesn't involve faith or prayer. Religion pales.
The singularity will equalize both Third World and First World to something far better.
The singularity institute recently completed a $100k challenge drive (for $200k total). If transhumanism/singularity research could get the kind of funding malaria gets from these philanthropists, the world would be a far better place.
Sure there's some nice environemental theory, but it comes down to calling for laws. There are very few environmentalist libertarians. It tends to run strong among the anti-IP types.
There were electrodes inserted in the primary motor cortex that went the other way. So someone could control a simple video game with the mind. I don't see any preference either way--both are important if you want to play video games as well as watch movies.
That would be the most interesting, a human brain in a machine. Just hook up the cranial nerves and spinal cord and you're all set. We're pretty sure from amputations that you're still sentient after losing limbs.
We already have artificial cochleas and retinas interfacing to cranial nerves.
How about having a CCD that takes true monochromatic images? No RGB overlays. So a sodium lamp would register near zero unless near its wavelength.
It should go through. Coders in general are not required to be deterministic, so some pattern recognition would have to go into identifying the watermark.
...and every audio file an MP3. And so on.
Oops...false dichotomy. I suppose libertarianism blows your mind too.
I talked a bit with Tyler Emerson at the singinst.org about this. I think we can augment ourselves even as we work the other way to build a posthuman from scratch.
Good job nearing the $100k challenge, guys.
Kevin Warwick used an implantable RFID chip as an example of early transhumanist technology. I'm sure a lot of Slashdot eagerly awaits transhumanism.
I did a simple little game in it, but to do something with scrolling and transparency I had to write my own procedure in in-line assembly.
It's culling a billion into 50,000. If storage technologies advance enough, you just record everything and sort it out later.