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How Going to Space Changes the Debate About Radical Human Enhancement

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By Nicholas Agar
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Data Availability Statement The author has nothing to report. References 1, “Genetic Enhancement From the Perspective of Transhumanism: Exploring a New Paradigm of Transhuman Evolution,” Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 27 (2024): 529–544. 2“What's The Farthest Humans Have Gone in Space?” LabXchange, published 2024, https://www.labxchange.org/library/items/lb:LabXchange:c70d67ed:html:1#. 3, , , , and , “Mars Colonization: Beyond Getting There,” Global Challenges 25, no.
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Will Big AI save the world?

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By Stuart Whatley Verified, Nicholas Agar
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aidogeElon MuskFuturismHG WellsSocietyUS “The government knows AGI is coming”, the New York Times’s Ezra Klein tells us, “and we’re not prepared in part because it’s not clear what it would mean to prepare”. We’ve all heard of these prognostications by now. On one end of the spectrum are “Doomers” who warn that “the most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances, is that literally everyone on Earth will die”.
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Ray Kurzweil, Evangelist Of Techno-Immortality| Countercurrents

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By Andrew Nikiforuk, Nicholas Agar, Bhabani Shankar Nayak, Ugo Bardi
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI Ray Kurzweil Penguin (2024) Ray Kurzweil, who is 76, wears the latest in Silicon Valley fashion: a Mickey Mouse watch, colourful suspenders and a righteous belief that humans should be able to live forever. For two decades the inventor, futurist, computer geek and Google engineer has expressed an almost religious desire to meld with the consciousness of machines, or what he calls the Singularity.
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