{"id":181032,"date":"2024-01-21T18:33:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/old-and-new-futurisms-in-silicon-valley"},"modified":"2024-01-21T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T00:33:52","slug":"old-and-new-futurisms-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/old-and-new-futurisms-in-silicon-valley","title":{"rendered":"Old and new futurisms in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VM_xddDHdkc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Natasha and Max also appear in a recent video titled \u201cTranshumanism. What it is not\u201d in conversation with David Wood and two representatives of the anti-transhumanist camp, Alexander Thomas and \u00c9mile Torres. I\u2019m not familiar with the work of Thomas. I\u2019m more familiar with the work of Torres. I very strongly disagree with most of what Torres says, but I must concede that Torres seems an intelligent and perceptive person, not without a certain endearing grace. However, BS is BS.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve watched and listened again to the awesome conversation between Lex Fridman and Guillaume Verdon aka Beff Jezos, the founder of the movement called effective accelerationism (e\/acc) and the company Extropic AI. This long conversation (almost 3 hours) touches a lot of things including physics, quantum, thermodynamics, Artificial Intelligence, LLMs, space, e\/acc philosophy &amp; metaphysics, and of course the meaning of life &amp; all that. This is the most complete talk on e\/acc so far and is likely to remain so for some time. Watch it all, and let\u2019s accelerate the fuck away from mediocrity toward unlimited extropian and cosmist greatness.<\/p>\n<p>See my previous posts on e\/acc (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.turingchurch.com\/p\/effective-accelerationism-eacc-is\" rel>1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turingchurch.com\/p\/more-thoughts-on-effective-accelerationism\" rel>2<\/a>). I see e\/acc as the new kid on the historic block of futurism, cosmism, and extropy. The next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turingchurch.com\/p\/terasem\" rel>Terasem<\/a> Colloquium on July 20, the (alas 55th!) anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon, and the next issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.turingchurch.com\/p\/terasem\" rel>Terasem<\/a> \u2019s <em>Journal of Geoethical Nanotechnology<\/em>, to be published in July, will explore the old and new futurisms on the block: parallels, differences, philosophical foundations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha and Max also appear in a recent video titled \u201cTranshumanism. What it is not\u201d in conversation with David Wood and two representatives of the anti-transhumanist camp, Alexander Thomas and \u00c9mile Torres. I\u2019m not familiar with the work of Thomas. I\u2019m more familiar with the work of Torres. I very strongly disagree with most of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1617,6,8,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}