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…
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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…
Roman V. Yampolskiy
Why are you Transhuman(ist)? Human design has multiple obvious flaws; I am a transhumanist because I see it as our destiny to improve on the current design. Dr. Roman V. Yampolskiy is a Tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the Speed School of Engineering, University of Louisville. He is the founding and current director of…
Your Survival Depends On All Of Us – Support Open Sourcing Collective Superintelligence
Artificial Superintelligence or ASI is coming eventually. There are groups of organizations discussing the existential risk that ASI poses to humanity. Even if we only develop an AGI, AGI will still create ASI and we lose control at some point. Supporting the Open Sourcing of Collective Superintelligent systems is our only hope for keeping up…
Jose Cordeiro
Cordeiro was born in Caracas, Venezuela from Spanish parents who emigrated from Madrid during the Franco dictatorship.[3] Cordeiro obtained a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA. He subsequently studied International Economics and Comparative Politics at Georgetown University in Washington, USA, and obtained…
Natasha Vita-More
An expert on emerging technology and humanity’s future. She is the author and co-editor of The Transhumanist Reader, Transhumanism: What is it? and the seminal designer of Primo Posthuman, and an international speaker on human enhancement, radical life extension, and humanity’s future. She is the former President of the Extropy Institute and current Executive Director…
Zoltan Istvan
Why IAmTranshuman (ist)? “I’m transhuman because I’m doing everything I can do to overcome death with science and technology. I also can’t wait to embrace cyborgism into my body.” A writer, futurist, and founder of the first Transhumanist Party and former leader of the US Transhumanist Party political organization. He is the author of the 2013 book The…
What is #IAmTranshuman About?
#IAmTranshuman is designed to be a unique experience of communicating who you are as a transhumanist, focused on humanizing transhumanism. Tell us your story. We strive to negate the outmoded paradigm of deleterious binary organizations while humanizing transhumanism. We want to show the variety of Transhumans and the reasons they identify as such. In many…