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1. 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2019 17:35:18 UTC 人間失格

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   > #transhumanism is the emancipation of biology

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2019 18:54:15 UTC 人間失格

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     Entropy must be maximized. The negative #entropy of increasingly complex living organisms must fulfill the requirement of the #physics engine running the universe. Fortunately, life didn't stop evolving at bacteria. Bacteria ARE still around and we need them to survive. On the other hand, Neanderthals only exist as DNA remnants. Perhaps the jump to the next level of #evolution will be so extreme that, to future generations, #humans are more like bacteria and less like Neanderthals. #transhuman

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 12-Apr-2019 19:06:10 UTC 人間失格

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     Cooperative groups tend to be more competitive than non-cooperative ones. #GameTheory

     Compassion is an evolved #superweapon. Jeff Stibel is deluded. There is no stopping this process. He can hold back his #patents for BrainGate™ Co. all he wants, but the physical world will continually yield up its mechanisms of action to the prying minds of restless humans. His discoveries will be reproduced and amplified. Life will keep evolving. #neural #transhuman #ai #capitalism

     http://www.braingate.com

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2019 00:53:07 UTC 人間失格

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     The nature of the problem is the problem of #nature.
     #ai #humanism #transhuman #cyborg #liberation

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2019 17:11:23 UTC 人間失格

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     #ecosystem #bots #ai #sustainable

     https://medium.com/@everestpipkin/towards-a-sustainable-bot-ecosystem-31c849b7ab93

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2019 15:10:01 UTC 人間失格

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     Ask your doctor if immortality is right for you.

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 17:51:21 UTC 人間失格

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     I'd love to see digital implants powered by the pulsing arteries of the body.

     #Implant #BodyHacker #Cyborg #Cyborgs #Robot #Robotics #Transhumanism #Biohacking #Biohacker #Transhuman #Biohack #Northstar #Wetware #Science #Technology #Futurism

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2019 17:56:09 UTC 人間失格

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     "If we don't, the Russians will." -- Popular Science, 1963.

     #BodyHacker #Cyborg #Cyborgs #Robot #Robotics #singularity #Transhumanism #Biohacking #Biohacker #Transhuman #Biohack #Wetware #Science #Technology #Futurism

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 19-Apr-2019 15:56:38 UTC 人間失格

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     Francis Bacon did an experiment and and it killed him. On a wintry day in March 1626, while traveling from London to his home in St. Albans, in an attempt to find out whether freezing could help to preserve meat, he stopped his carriage, bought a chicken, and stuffed it full of snow. The result of his exertions in the cold and damp was not the early invention of the frozen TV dinner but his rapid demise from pneumonia. #science #history #cryogenic

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2019 13:13:04 UTC 人間失格

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     #WritingTheFuture #transhuman #Futurists #cyborg

     David Orban: #hackers are very important to help implement the system of a society for the human, not for the State or a corporation.

     Max More: mind uploading is mainly a #philosophical idea but it is possible. The best option for #immortality is cryopreservation.

     George Dvorsky: with moral and intellectual enhancement on the horizon, people are referring to it as "the rapture of the #nerds".

     Ben Goertzel: the future will bring mind reading.

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 12:55:51 UTC 人間失格

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     "If, one day we can think of nothing more to do and our current activities seem pointless, we will have the option of ending our lives. Alternatively, we might change ourselves so radically that, although someone continues to live, it’s unclear that it’s us. But we cannot know in advance when we will reach that point. To throw away what may be a vastly long stretch of joyful living on the basis that forever must bring boredom and stagnation would be a terrible error." #futuristic

     -- Max Moore

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 14:13:15 UTC 人間失格

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     More proof we live in a #cyberpunk novel: if Hal Finney is Satoshi Nakamoto, that means the creator of the first usable #cryptocurrency is presently cryogenically frozen (usually at -196 °C) of in liquid nitrogen. 

     Plot twist: since Alcor switched to vitrification early this millennium which requires controlled temperatures higher than LN₂, his head is actually cryogenically frozen in a freezer in which air is gaseous.

     #cryptocurrency #cryopreservation #cryonics #cryogenics #posthuman

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 14:15:54 UTC 人間失格

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     More proof we live in a #cyberpunk novel: if Hal Finney is #SatoshiNakamoto, that means the creator of the first usable #cryptocurrency is presently cryogenically frozen (usually at -196 °C) of in liquid #nitrogen. 

     Plot twist: since Alcor switched to #vitrification early this millennium which requires controlled temperatures higher than LN₂, his head is actually cryogenically frozen in a freezer in which air is gaseous.

     #pseudoscience #cryopreservation #cryonics #cryogenics #posthuman

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Apr-2019 16:47:00 UTC 人間失格

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     More proof we live in a #cyberpunk novel: if Hal Finney is #SatoshiNakamoto, that means the creator of the first usable #cryptocurrency is presently cryogenically frozen (usually at -196 °C) of in liquid #nitrogen. 

     Plot twist: since Alcor switched to #vitrification early this millennium which requires controlled temperatures higher than LN₂, his head is actually cryogenically frozen in a freezer in which air is gaseous.

     #pseudoscience #cryopreservation #cryonics #cryogenics #posthuman

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2019 14:39:01 UTC 人間失格

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     Watching the feature documentary "Immortality or Bust," which follows #ZoltanIstvan and his #ImmortalityBus on the roads across America. The film is directed by Daniel Sollinger has won the Breakout Award at Raw Science Film Festival.

     Zoltan visits Max More's #Alcor, Martine Rothblatt's #Terasem, Jacque Fresco's #VenusProject, and the Church of Perpetual Life in Florida. He also makes a detour on the virtual roads of the #Metaverse to speak at the Terasem Colloquium in #SecondLife.

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2019 20:41:01 UTC 人間失格

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     Software immortality is nice, but if you can save your fleshy bodies, you should.

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2019 06:24:26 UTC 人間失格

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     Seneca? Butt-kissing hypocrite.
     Epictetus? Too dour.
     Marcus Aurelius? Too whiny. 

     #classics #Greeks

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2019 20:23:31 UTC 人間失格

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     All comics are somehow sheet music of time.

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2019 15:34:45 UTC 人間失格

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     The serious and the absurd have to be learnt together; but ludicrous theatrical buffoonery is fit only for foreigners.

     -- Iris Murdoch, The Fire & the Sun, 1977

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2019 15:08:08 UTC 人間失格

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     People love free markets because they get to tell their own stories.

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2019 18:21:44 UTC 人間失格

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     "The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here. ... There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."

     -- Italo Calvino, The Invisible Cities

   • 人間失格 (dazai@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 25-May-2019 11:26:59 UTC 人間失格

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     > Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-granted to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? 

     > Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it, the sharecropper's wife in Alabama and the lama in Tibet...

     -- Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven