Engagement and control in the metaverse

How far do we need to be engaged in virtual worlds to keep coming back and what kinds of engagement are meaningful enough? There was a commercial in the 90s that ran on Nickelodeon.  It’s aim was to get children to go outside and engage with the world more.  It was famed as a new…

Can the new metaverse survive?

During its heyday from roughly 2008 to 2011 Second Life was full of major brand storefronts and a thriving in-world economy. However those brands moved out after it became clear that the economy wasn’t driving any traffic to their stores and few were buying real-world goods and services. The focus was on elements of the…

Opportunity to Publish AI Related Papers in Peer-Reviewed Journal (no cost)

One of the bigger problems I have run into in doing research out of a small lab is the cost of publishing papers and get them peer-reviewed.  Many of the most specialized scientific conferences like BICA Society (Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures for AI) can not afford to subsidize costs. This means limits on how many…

Call For Papers – Collective Superintelligence Summit

This is a call for papers for the First Annual Collective Superintelligence Virtual Conference on Friday, June 4th, 2021.  Papers should be at least 4 pages, with no limit on size, and cover topics on Collective Superintelligent systems.  Such topics can include: What forms can collective intelligence systems take? How do you build a collective…

The Case for the Offspring of the Humanity

Recently, I was in a debate about this question organized by the USTP, “Is artificial general intelligence likely to be benevolent and beneficial to human well-being without special safeguards or restrictions on its development?”  That really went to my position on AGI and Existential Risk. This debate drives at the part of the work at…

h+ Academy – Challenge Limits.

The Members H+ Academy is developed to provide a way for members to exchange ideas and collaborate on projects. Round Table discussions featuring world-leading thinkers discussing the most immediate issues will be recorded and available on our YouTube channel. We have two ways for members to participate n the Academy: (1) attend the Humanity+ hosted…

Volunteer To Help With The Uplift E-Governance Study

The AGI Laboratory is looking for volunteers to help with our E-governance study.  Here is the summary from the experimental framework for the research program: This paper outlines the experimental framework for an e-governance study by the AGI Laboratory.  The goal of this research study is to identify indications of the relative performance of e-governance…

E-Governance Study

(Provo) The AGI lab is conducting a study in e-governance technology titled, “Building Better Policy in e-Governance” which is an AI-Driven research program that is part of the Uplift mASI research program that has the goal of a better understanding of how technology can be used to develop better policy. The project has a number…

The Transhuman Stock Photo Collection

One of the issues we found is that for doing blog posts, slide decks, and articles some times it’s hard to get good photography so we tackled the problem by building a stock photo service that is free for transhumanists.  The site uses a version of the creative commons license but is specific only to…

The AGI Protocols

When looking at various industries today there is a stark contrast between those with standardized metrics for quantifying quality, risk, and efficiency compared to industries where a lack of standards has generated pseudo-scientific metrics dominated by marketing departments rather than any verifiable and objective values. In many cases marketing departments go so far as to…

Sports Tech: Making way for better Competition Through Science.

The recent introduction of new technologies to various sporting fields has had a profound effect on these games.  Records are being broken across the board as with the support of these tools the physical capacity of an athlete is given an edge that was before impossible.  This isn’t about any kind of chemical though.  Those…

The IAmTranshuman Blog

(Seattle) The IAmTranshuman blog is generated by the staff of Transhumanity.net but focused on general transhumanism.  Topics are focused on ‘news’, ‘projects’, ‘Resources’ and general transhumanism, setting aside controversial topics best left to other sites and blogs.   For example, the new IAmTranshuman blog might carry new material about the Transpire Project or Hpluspedia but not…

Transhumanist Sensible Action Re COVID-19

From Dr. Natasha’s blog in this time of Pandemic: Use Reliable Sources: Listen to the authorities in your country and their guidelines. Review updates at the World Health Organization and Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Be informed about quantified data (Total Confirmed and Total Recovered cases). Attend the COVID-19 The State & future of Pandemics virtual event where Humanity+ Board…

The Immortalists Club

(New Your, NY) A recent new transhumanist project started by Dinorah Delfin is the new online magazine called Immortalists Magazine by The Immortalist Club is already on its third publication.  This particular project is a much needed monthly subscription magazine that happens to be free.  This is the kind of project that will give the…

The Transhuman House Version 3.0

As many of you know about the Transhuman House we had open for 3 years in Provo Utah. For the first year, I curated the location and for most of 1.5 years, Matthew Lehmitz curated the location and another supporter named Bill.   Alas back in November, it was closed due to not hitting financial targets….

Transhuman Project: Transpire

(London) Transpire.me is a Transhuman blog and project site focused on helping get projects started and moving.  The project is run by Kate Levchuk and started in 2019.  The thinking is that with help these projects that others submit can get some of the help they need.   From the site: Transpire is a Hub of…

Making way for better competition through science.

The recent introduction of new technologies to various sporting fields has had a profound effect on these games. Records are being broken across the board as with the support of these tools the physical capacity of an athlete is given an edge that was before impossible. This is not about any kind of chemical though….

Icon’s of Transhumanism

One of the things we’d like to share is some of the people that started the transhumanist movement as we know it today.  While this might not be an exhaustive list, this is some of the people on IAmTranshuman that have profiles on the site.  Given all their contributions we encourage you to learn more…

I AM (Trans) Human – The Movie

While this movie is actually titled “I AM HUMAN” once you read the description you can see why “I AM TRANSHUMAN” would apply just as well.   From the site: In the 1960s, going to the moon captured humanity’s ambition and imagination.  Now, more than fifty years later, the next great frontier that will define humanity…

Overcoming Human Bias

Cognitive Bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from logic or rationality in judgment where individuals create their own “subjective reality” based on their perception.  With over 188 different documented cognitive biases there are a great many ways it can manifest, with some of the better-known examples being prejudice, stereotyping, confirmation bias, and belief bias. …

International Women’s Day – The Women of Transhumanism

(the Internets) Today is International Women’s Day (March 8th) and we’d love to share with you some of the fantastic women of transhumanism.  While some people think that there are few such women, I’d argue that the women collectively far outperform men in terms of contributing to Transhumanism.  Most men that I know who proclaim…

Transhumanist Declaration

Humanity stands to be profoundly affected by science and technology in the future. We envision the possibility of broadening human potential by overcoming aging, cognitive shortcomings, involuntary suffering, and our confinement to planet Earth. We believe that humanity’s potential is still mostly unrealized. There are possible scenarios that lead to wonderful and exceedingly worthwhile enhanced…

A New Kind of Governance, ‘Transhuman’ Governance… (A Proposal)

When thinking about the IAmTranshuman project I always end up thinking about policy and things that could be improved even in small ways to help society be more transhuman. For example one of the problems with democracy is that it is impractical to have an absolute democracy on a large scale. Every decision doesn’t scale…

How Transhuman Is Someone?

This article articulates the details of the rating system we will be using for public figures in terms of their apparent inclinations to transhumanist thought.  That is not to say that anyone of the people we rate are actual transhumanists, or that they identify as such, but when it comes to aligning to our values…

The End of the Transhuman House 2.0

(Provo) The story of the Transhuman House goes back a number of years.  Starting with the Foundation looking at a location in Seattle.  This location was a good quarter acre with about 2500 square foot 4 bedroom house with a two-car garage.  This didn’t initially pan out due to the cost overhead and not getting…