Science, Technology & the Future | Transhumanism: Technical Solutions to Human Limitations @scfu | Uploaded September 2019 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
The intersection of Humanity, Technoscience & Artificial Intelligence.
This talk was presented by Adam Ford to the Central Victorian Atheists and Freethinkers in Kyneton.
Topics: Moore's Law (accelerating returns), motivations for human enhancement, historic conceptions of the future, humanism, the renaissance, reason vs romanticism, modern criticisms of transhumanism, ambivalence to enhancement, Abolitionism/the Hedonistic Imperative, moral enhancement, artificial intelligence, the intelligence explosion, existential risk, avoiding pandemics, nanotechnology, SENS & rejuvenation medicine, etc.

Introduced by Ian Robinson (Convenor of the Central Victorian Atheists & Freethinkers).

Location: The Albion Hotel, 41 Mollison Street, Kyneton

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