{"id":204726,"date":"2025-01-28T12:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/uplifting-animals-and-aliens-part-ii"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:11:20","slug":"uplifting-animals-and-aliens-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/uplifting-animals-and-aliens-part-ii","title":{"rendered":"Uplifting: Animals and Aliens Part II"},"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\/wfDHt68-ANU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part II of a collaboration with Isaac Arthur on the subject of uplifting, the concept of increasing an animal or alien species\u2019 intelligence. Further, we explore the concept of Downshifting, the idea of making deliberately making something less intelligent.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Part 1: \u2022 Uplifting Animal &amp; Aliens, Part 1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>Isaac\u2019s video on rare intelligence:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 fermi paradox great filters: rare int\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Music:<\/p>\n<p>Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/.\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/.<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/uplifting-animals-and-aliens-part-ii\">Continue reading \u201cUplifting: Animals and Aliens Part II\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part II of a collaboration with Isaac Arthur on the subject of uplifting, the concept of increasing an animal or alien species\u2019 intelligence. Further, we explore the concept of Downshifting, the idea of making deliberately making something less intelligent. Watch Part 1: \u2022 Uplifting Animal &amp; Aliens, Part 1 of 2 Isaac\u2019s video on rare [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204726","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=204726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}