The rejection of the human condition as a bias

in #bitnation6 years ago (edited)

The "Lucy" AI will magically give you a system the day the "technological singularity" comes, is a bit of a summary of the game theory of XPAT. When the human condition is rejected, anything becomes possible until reality catches up.

To understand the history behind XPAT, we have to look at the world in which it was conceived. The absence of governance systems for the digital age, meant that it was extremely stressful to work in sectors that had no way to integrate with the monopoly-on-violence (MoV) as a consensus mechanism, humans can be coerced but computers and information technology are impossible to regulate on top of MoV. The instinctive response to stressors, is the fight and flight response, and wide spread escapism is what led to mythologies like "transhumanism", propagated through organizations like Singularity University, part of Google.

The roots of "transhumanism" is the belief that neurons, which measure around 0.01 mm in size, are the transistors of the brain, and that the total capacity of the brain is that of 100 billion transistors with 1000 synapses each, and that idea has been promoted by people like Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google since 2015. George Gilder has followed all of that over the decades that passed, and explains it very simple in this recent interview.

The idea that biology would use a computer with transistors (neurons) 1000x the size of 14nm transistors that have been pretty common in human-built computers, is, well, how does that add up exactly? It doesn't. A single neuron contains billions of tubulin, 4.5 x 8 nano meter, similar to the size of human made transistors, and tubulins are organized into lattices in microtubules, and are the computer of the cell, as well as of neurons, and the brain is more similar to an internet of computers than a single computer.

The memes that are loudest in ordering genes to replicate them have a survival advantage, and similar to the Abrahamitic religions story of heaven and hell, eternal life and eternal damnation, "transhumanism" propagates via the limbic system, mostly subconscious processes, and followers see both immortality and omnipotent control as potential rewards from their belief. As Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof is quoted saying in an interview with "humanity plus",

"I got into Transhumanism through Biohacking. I operated in a magnet in one of my fingers, to see what it would be like. I posted the photos of the operation on Facebook which got me a lot of attention from the Transhumanist community, so I started to look deeper into all things connected with Transhumanism, and really fell in love with the field. I guess being able to to control your destiny, through cryonics, downloading brains, modifying the body, etc is the ultimate frontier for liberty, once the violent global oligopoly on governance is gone. Immortality! "

The rejection of the human condition as a bias

The "transhumanists" that are associated with XPAT are Susanne Tarkowski Tempelhof, the person behind XPAT, Zoltan Istvan, leader of the US Transhumanist Party political organization who travels around the USA and preaches immortality, Robert Bass, founder of "zero state", a transhumanist community affiliated with the US Transhumanist Party, Carin Ism, member of Humanity+, and then there is David Orban, faculty member at Singularity University, and an advisor of "bitnation" and Susanne since 2014.

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