Transhumanism

Viktor Zeegelaar

Crow
Orthodox Inquirer
Another gem here. Man this topic is fascinating. Wild stuff.

ANTHONY LEVANDOWSKI :alien: makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather than cloaked acolytes, the engineer known for self-driving cars—and triggering a notorious lawsuit—could be unveiling his latest startup instead of laying the foundations for a new religion. But he is doing just that. Artificial intelligence has already inspired billion-dollar companies, far-reaching research programs, and scenarios of both transcendence and doom. Now Levandowski is creating its first church.

The new religion of artificial intelligence is called Way of the Future. It represents an unlikely next act for the Silicon Valley robotics wunderkind at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between Uber and Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous-vehicle company. Papers filed with the Internal Revenue Service in May name Levandowski as the leader (or “Dean”) of the new religion, as well as CEO of the nonprofit corporation formed to run it.

The documents state that WOTF’s activities will focus on “the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.” That includes funding research to help create the divine AI itself. The religion will seek to build working relationships with AI industry leaders and create a membership through community outreach, initially targeting AI professionals and “laypersons who are interested in the worship of a Godhead based on AI.” The filings also say that the church “plans to conduct workshops and educational programs throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area beginning this year.”

 

GuitarVH

Ostrich
Orthodox Inquirer
Another gem here. Man this topic is fascinating. Wild stuff.

ANTHONY LEVANDOWSKI :alien: makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed Silicon Valley-casual in jeans and flanked by a PR rep rather than cloaked acolytes, the engineer known for self-driving cars—and triggering a notorious lawsuit—could be unveiling his latest startup instead of laying the foundations for a new religion. But he is doing just that. Artificial intelligence has already inspired billion-dollar companies, far-reaching research programs, and scenarios of both transcendence and doom. Now Levandowski is creating its first church.

The new religion of artificial intelligence is called Way of the Future. It represents an unlikely next act for the Silicon Valley robotics wunderkind at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between Uber and Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous-vehicle company. Papers filed with the Internal Revenue Service in May name Levandowski as the leader (or “Dean”) of the new religion, as well as CEO of the nonprofit corporation formed to run it.

The documents state that WOTF’s activities will focus on “the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software.” That includes funding research to help create the divine AI itself. The religion will seek to build working relationships with AI industry leaders and create a membership through community outreach, initially targeting AI professionals and “laypersons who are interested in the worship of a Godhead based on AI.” The filings also say that the church “plans to conduct workshops and educational programs throughout the San Francisco/Bay Area beginning this year.”


Yea I remember seeing something about this a few years back. These freaks are absolutely certifiable.
 

SeekingTruth

Kingfisher
Catholic

One key future technological advance in reducing latency will be 5G mobile telecommunication, expected in the year 2020 (AT&T Business, 2018). 5G promises to ensure a new way for mobile users to experience VR and AR, for example, via the cloud without latency artifacts. “To give you a sense of scale, the typical refresh speeds for a computer screen are approximately 80 ms” (Weldon, 2016). “However, for AR/VR, the industry is driving the conversation toward the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR) — the neurological process by which the brain coordinates eye and head movements to stabilize images on the retina. This is critical to synchronizing virtual and real objects to create a coherent view.

Cumulative human knowledge doubled approximately every century until 1900. By 1950, human knowledge was doubling every 25 years. As of 2006, on average, human knowledge was doubling every 13 months, and the “Internet of Things” is expected to further lower the doubling time of human knowledge to 12 h (Coles et al., 2006). Such massive amounts of information increase the urgency to radically improve human learning capacities, which are currently limited by biological evolution-driven characteristics. The impracticability of keeping up with the modern rate of creation of scientific knowledge is clearly evident, assuming present-day human biological cognitive abilities (Larsen and von Ins, 2010). Contemporary approaches to this problem include limited strategies such as data mining and research maps (Landreth and Silva, 2013). Neuralnanorobotics may enable us to far surpass our presently limited cognitive capacity to learn in a world driven by exponentially expanding knowledge.

The ultimate learning process may be manifested as direct transfer of knowledge to the human brain, where neuralnanorobots empower practically instantaneous and nearly perfect learning. However, the injection of facts and accumulated knowledge may not necessarily translate to cognition, understanding, meta-analysis or meta thought that can inspire imagination and creativity. Complex skills such as playing the piano or performing a complex brain operation might be “injected” into the brain, which may reduce the time that it traditionally takes to learn the piano, or to be a proficient brain surgeon. This may be possible, as these are specific manual skills that are imprinted in the brain. Access to the hippocampus and cerebellum for memory injection would also be required, as well as the cerebellum and basal ganglia for complex motor tasks.
Empowered by the exponential increase in price/performance of computational data storage and processing power, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are improving across many domains and demonstrating superior capabilities when compared to those of humans. Examples of the superiority of AI include: game-playing (Jeopardy, Go, chess), driving cars, providing diagnostics for some cancer patients, and other examples in various domains (Ferrucci et al., 2010; Levinson et al., 2011; Chouard, 2016). Over the next decade, narrow artificial intelligence algorithms are expected to outperform humans in many other areas. Advances in artificial intelligence across machine learning, machine vision, and natural language processing domains, combined with advances in big data and robotics, are anticipated to empower robots to outperform humans in many, if not most, physical and cognitive tasks. However, in the future, we can expect far more powerful “artificial general intelligence” (AGI), a subfield of AI oriented toward creating thinking machines with general cognitive capability at the human level and beyond. (Minsky, 1985; Nakashima, 1999; Horst, 2002; Hutter, 2005; Goertzel, 2006; Adams et al., 2011).

Interfacing the human brain with the cloud via neuralnanorobotic technologies may be beneficial for humanity by assisting in the mitigation of the serious existential risks posed by the emergence of artificial general intelligence (Bostrom, 2002, 2013; Whitby and Oliver, 2000; Joy, 2007; Bostrom and Cir, 2008; Yudkowsky, 2008; Schneider, 2009). One such mitigation might involve the merging human brains with computers to prevent the dangers of unbridled artificial general intelligence (Dewey, 2015). Neuralnanorobotics may indeed be a suitable technology to assist with reducing human existential risk potentially initiated by rapidly emerging artificial general intelligence by enabling the creation of an offsetting beneficial human augmentation technology.
Fully immersive virtual reality may become indistinguishable from reality with the emergence of neuralnanorobotics, rendering many forms of physical travel obsolete. Office buildings might be replaced by virtual-reality (VR) environments in which conferences could be attended virtually, replacing today’s VoIP conference calls and Internet-based video conference calls with highly realistic, fully immersive VR conferences in virtual-reality spaces. Immersive VR may enable long-distance communications in engaging ways within environments that are indistinguishable from reality. The economic and environmental benefits of significantly reducing travel requirements may be significant. For example, Cisco has reported savings of millions of dollars through the use of highly realistic telepresence systems.

Current systems for fully immersive virtual reality include VR headsets and haptic controllers (typically to facilitate immersive gaming) (Alkhamisi and Monowar, 2013; Tweedie, 2015). In principle, fully immersive VR may benefit from advanced neuralnanorobotics to provide, for example, appropriate “proximal cues.”

Neuralnanorobotically induced artificial signals may be indistinguishable from actual sensory data that is being received from the physical body. All brain output signals might be suppressed by neuralnanorobots to avoid the movement of real limbs, mouth, or eyes during virtual experiences; in place of this, virtual limbs would react appropriately while adapting the surrounding virtual world in the field of vision (similar to current immersive gaming). B/CI users might initially encounter a virtual dashboard in the cloud where they can select from an extensive menu that is replete with experiential pathways. The gaming industry provides virtual environments for humans to explore, from recreations of actual locations to fanciful environments — even environments that violate the laws of physics. Virtual trips in simulations of “real” locations will permit the equivalent of nearly instantaneous time travel. Ultrahigh-resolution, fully immersive VR might also enhance business negotiations and web-dating, among other applications. The “real” and the “virtual” worlds could evolve to become practically impossible to distinguish.

Another application of neuralnanorobotics might be manifest as augmented reality—superimposing information about the real world onto the retina to provide real-time guidance, explanations, or data on social events while traveling. Neuralnanorobotics might provide real-time auditory translation of foreign languages, or access to many forms of online information, which would integrate these augmentations into our daily activities. Some types of information might be presented by virtual assistants or avatars that overlay the real world to assist their human partners with the retrieval of information. These virtual assistants, running on the cloud, similarly to IBM Watson, might not even wait for questions if they can predict human desires based on previously registered behavioral patterns and other data.
 
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Viktor Zeegelaar

Crow
Orthodox Inquirer
Short essay by Julian Huxley, who coined the term transhumanism and founded UNESCO as UN's cultural arm, being the most influential philosopher in UN ideas. He goes on a rant how we must develop ourselves, become the best versions of ourselves, then to turn suddenly and call for mass depopulation lol. These people always do that: they start out by being the beneficiaries of humanity, then to turn and say humanity itself is the problem. I can also very much see the self help aspect of transhumanist/globalist thought, which tells me that the whole secular idea of self help, personal development and progression is in fact a demonic lie, to get you out of your peace and progress away from Christ.
 

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Hypno

Crow
I think what is going to happen is that gradually we will incorporate "machine" elements into our bodies. Lose your hearing - get an amplifier. Hand amputated - get a prosthesis. Scientific gains are compounding exponentially so its inevitable that the merging with machines happens and will be quite dramatic.

Is that transhumanism? Is it anti-Biblical? If you think so, then how do you distinguish between things like synthetic antibiotics and vaccines and really much of modern medicine.

I think right now people look at someone with mental disease who thinks they are a trans-machine and its easy to say transhumanism is bad. But are blood infusions bad? Prosthetic hands or legs? A wheelchair? A cane? Where do you draw the line? A bionic leg, like the Six-Million Dollar Man?

This is going to beg the question of what it means to be human. A really good book on the subject is Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari. (The title implies that homo sapiens will evolve into a new machine-merged, "god-like" species he nicknames homo deus.) He is better known for his first book, Sapiens. In Homo Deus, Harari describes how the merging of man and machine is likely to happen. He's not an advocate per se, just explaining what is probable. In doing so, he challenges a lot of myths about what it means to be human. For example, some people used to say things like playing chess prove we are human, but now computers can play chess. Similarly, others say that being able to experience emotions or develop and use tools makes us human, but study of the animal kingdom shows that many animals can do this is as well.
 

SeekingTruth

Kingfisher
Catholic
I think what is going to happen is that gradually we will incorporate "machine" elements into our bodies. Lose your hearing - get an amplifier. Hand amputated - get a prosthesis. Scientific gains are compounding exponentially so its inevitable that the merging with machines happens and will be quite dramatic.

Is that transhumanism? Is it anti-Biblical? If you think so, then how do you distinguish between things like synthetic antibiotics and vaccines and really much of modern medicine.

I think right now people look at someone with mental disease who thinks they are a trans-machine and its easy to say transhumanism is bad. But are blood infusions bad? Prosthetic hands or legs? A wheelchair? A cane? Where do you draw the line? A bionic leg, like the Six-Million Dollar Man?

This is going to beg the question of what it means to be human. A really good book on the subject is Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari. (The title implies that homo sapiens will evolve into a new machine-merged, "god-like" species he nicknames homo deus.) He is better known for his first book, Sapiens. In Homo Deus, Harari describes how the merging of man and machine is likely to happen. He's not an advocate per se, just explaining what is probable. In doing so, he challenges a lot of myths about what it means to be human. For example, some people used to say things like playing chess prove we are human, but now computers can play chess. Similarly, others say that being able to experience emotions or develop and use tools makes us human, but study of the animal kingdom shows that many animals can do this is as well.
“Transhumanism” to fix someone physically seems to be different than the merging of man and machine to obtain greater knowledge (Neuralink) or some enlightened human state. This seems more inherently evil.

Although, they are also attempting to make man immortal with these progressive physical fixes. I think it’s ok in knowing that they will never be able to have the key to full immortality. But, we will have to continually watch the morphology/psyche of humans change as they won’t give up. Because scientism/heaven on Earth is all that atheists have. It’s inevitable.
 

NoMoreTO

Hummingbird
Catholic
This is going to beg the question of what it means to be human. A really good book on the subject is Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari. (The title implies that homo sapiens will evolve into a new machine-merged, "god-like" species he nicknames homo deus.) He is better known for his first book, Sapiens. In Homo Deus, Harari describes how the merging of man and machine is likely to happen. He's not an advocate per se, just explaining what is probable. In doing so, he challenges a lot of myths about what it means to be human. For example, some people used to say things like playing chess prove we are human, but now computers can play chess. Similarly, others say that being able to experience emotions or develop and use tools makes us human, but study of the animal kingdom shows that many animals can do this is as well.

Harari is a (((sodomite))). Shifting these conversations into the overton window with a veil of neutrality is what he does.

Replacing a God given hand with something artificial is wrong, unless you have lost the hand and are seeking a prosthetic replacement. Like blood, you accept the treatment based on necessity, not upgrade. The merging of man and machine would be our choice as Humans, something you will find de emphasized in Harari's writings, he will focus on the "choices we are faced with", but the fact that we will merge is taken as a given to him. All of these believers in AI etc, they all lean on evolution, that humans must continue to evolve to be relevant, and that science can't be stopped.
 

Hypno

Crow
Harari is a (((sodomite))). Shifting these conversations into the overton window with a veil of neutrality is what he does.

Replacing a God given hand with something artificial is wrong, unless you have lost the hand and are seeking a prosthetic replacement. Like blood, you accept the treatment based on necessity, not upgrade. The merging of man and machine would be our choice as Humans, something you will find de emphasized in Harari's writings, he will focus on the "choices we are faced with", but the fact that we will merge is taken as a given to him. All of these believers in AI etc, they all lean on evolution, that humans must continue to evolve to be relevant, and that science can't be stopped.

OK so you draw the line at improvement versus replacement. That's fair.

I don't disagree with that or anything else you wrote but if you read his book - especially the early chapters where he explores what it means to be human and the extent (less than you think) that we are different from other parts of Creation - then you will better appreciate that the line is a lot fuzzier than you suggest.

Anyone interested in transhumanism should read the book if even just to better appreciate what is coming.
 

Phronema

Woodpecker
Orthodox
I have a relative who works at an elementary school in Sweden who me the boys there are not allowed to wrestle or show any sign of physical confrontation at the schoolyard. Not even when they play football. Neither are they allowed to play action games pretending to carry firearms (things boys like to do). Apparently, the school is adamant not to let the children get hurt, as some parents had earlier complained that their children had come home with 'a bruise'. Neither are the teachers allowed to raise their voice to the kids and hurt their feelings. Can you imagine the degree of sensitivity?

When I was a kid in the 90's, we were still allowed to wrestle and engage in physical tussles at school to release energy. We still climbed trees, built huts and engaged with nature. We liked to play warrior (I was a big fan of James Bond and had tons of toy guns), and most of us didn't grow up to become murderers as far as I know.

Today, boys are no longer allowed to excercise their instincts. Girls can play with dolls, but boys can't play with guns. If you look at playgrounds at parks, the ground is nowadays made out of rubber, so that the children won't hurt themselves if they fall. Our civilization can't even stomach the sight of blood anymore, as it might remind us of something primeval. I remember a Swedish boy at school who had some weird disease and used to faint when he saw blood. We are supposed to become more and more separated from our bodies and instincts, until we are purely rational beings with no connection to our predatory nature.

This is all transhumanism.
 
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Solitarius

 
Banned
Catholic
OK so you draw the line at improvement versus replacement. That's fair.

I don't disagree with that or anything else you wrote but if you read his book - especially the early chapters where he explores what it means to be human and the extent (less than you think) that we are different from other parts of Creation - then you will better appreciate that the line is a lot fuzzier than you suggest.

Anyone interested in transhumanism should read the book if even just to better appreciate what is coming.
What is coming, if (((they))) can manage it is a nightmare beyond the imagination of most people; they mean to exterminate all the goyim save those they mean to use as slaves. The dead will be the lucky ones in that case (provided they died in the state of grace) as (((they))) will subject their slaves to unspeakable abominations, they are much more like incarnate fiends than men. Imagine Caligula, Heliogabalus, H.H. Holmes, Lenin, Stalin, Ted Bundy & Jeffrey Dahmer rolled into one & you'll have a faint idea of what they are & the ways in which they will use modern technology. The only hope of the Remnant of the Faithful is that The Almighty will destroy their works with a comet striking the earth or a giant solar flare or some such great cataclysm. If not we're in for it. "For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. [22] And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened." Gospel of S. Matthew 24:21-22.
 

Hypno

Crow
I have a relative who works at an elementary school in Sweden who me the boys there are not allowed to wrestle or show any sign of physical confrontation at the schoolyard. Not even when they play football. Neither are they allowed to play action games pretending to carry firearms (things boys like to do). Apparently, the school is adamant not to let the children get hurt, as some parents had earlier complained that their children had come home with 'a bruise'. Neither are the teachers allowed to raise their voice to the kids and hurt their feelings. Can you imagine the degree of sensitivity?

When I was a kid in the 90's, we were still allowed to wrestle and engage in physical tussles at school to release energy. We still climbed trees, built huts and engaged with nature. We liked to play warrior (I was a big fan of James Bond and had tons of toy guns), and most of us didn't grow up to become murderers as far as I know.

Today, boys are no longer allowed to excercise their instincts. Girls can play with dolls, but boys can't play with guns. If you look at playgrounds at parks, the ground is nowadays made out of rubber, so that the children won't hurt themselves if they fall. Our civilization can't even stomach the sight of blood anymore, as it might remind us of something primeval. I remember a Swedish boy at school who had some weird disease and used to faint when he saw blood. We are supposed to become more and more separated from our bodies and instincts, until we are purely rational beings with no connection to our predatory nature.

This is all transhumanism.

We homeschooled our son. My wife would take him to parks and teach him to climb trees. That was not an accident, but our plan.

We had tree removed once in our backyard and it left a hole. Our son and his friend decided to expand it to make a "fort" for their Nerf wars. My wife bought a half dozen shovels so all of the boys could dig the fort. They would come home filthy from our backyard, to the chagrin of seveal of their parents. But that is how we rolled. Over time, that hole became 10 feet wide, 4 feet across, and 4 feet deep, and this is in the Deep South where the soil is hard clay.
 

soli.deo.gloria

Woodpecker
Orthodox
Gold Member
What is coming, if (((they))) can manage it is a nightmare beyond the imagination of most people; they mean to exterminate all the goyim save those they mean to use as slaves. The dead will be the lucky ones in that case (provided they died in the state of grace) as (((they))) will subject their slaves to unspeakable abominations, they are much more like incarnate fiends than men. Imagine Caligula, Heliogabalus, H.H. Holmes, Lenin, Stalin, Ted Bundy & Jeffrey Dahmer rolled into one & you'll have a faint idea of what they are & the ways in which they will use modern technology. The only hope of the Remnant of the Faithful is that The Almighty will destroy their works with a comet striking the earth or a giant solar flare or some such great cataclysm. If not we're in for it. "For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be. [22] And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened." Gospel of S. Matthew 24:21-22.


I want off this ride. :vomit:
 

NoMoreTO

Hummingbird
Catholic
Catholic Podcaster Dr. Taylor Marshall recently did a show on Transhumanism.

I listened to most of it the other night. The general thrust in the end is simply that God's Grace works with us in this life, and perfects us in the afterlife, where St. Thomas Aquinas teaches "Deiformity". The idea that we are deiformed (like unto God) in some way once we are in the light of God. There is something about Man where he seeks to be divine, and the transhumanist is in some ways trying to work this out, but looking to Man for the solution, not God.

 

Viktor Zeegelaar

Crow
Orthodox Inquirer
I dove into the topic of Transhumanism and I'll share some useful links for those interested. It's really astounding to see how much effort is done in this field to ''transcend humanity'', which in essence comes from a dissatisfaction of humanity and life as it is (created by God). At the core of course is the absence of any belief in eternal life in a next life. These people can't accept the normal sequence of life, all things that are part of this worldly life such as aging, illness and limitations.

Ray Kurzweil is the main figure/futurist in this field ''predicting'' what is to come (in other words, telling us what's to come), but there are others such as Elon Musk and his Neuralink (chipping the brain to connect to computers/internet/electronic devices). Quote from one of the articles: The big idea with Neuralink is that it will one day replace all forms of technology – things like your phone and your computer. Or, give you another way to interact with them. So it'll be convenient for you to have this chip with it being able with your thoughts to for example open a fridge or do something on a computer/smartphone, with the future possibility of the latter not being necessary anymore but being completely in your head.

Kurzweil’s predictions founded what’s called ‘the transhumanist movement’. According to Kurzweil, 2045 will ring in the singularity. Computing power will be so great that it will be impossible for ordinary humans (not augmented by technology) to keep up, and augmentation will be so common that the line between human and machine will be blurred.

Yes, computer advancements will go so fast that your brain will be adapted to the cloud. I'd say this transhumanism for them is the ''living forever'' scenario and for us, the masses, it's complete control through controlling our thoughts, monitoring, surveillance and mind control to create an army of productive working ants who don't question the official reality and their role in it, nor who's in control of them, their masters. They want our brain, and if you take that further and make it spiritual our soul. This truly is the inversion of God's creation in the physical sense, which in effect is a logical continuation although acceleration of the inversion of God's creation we've already seen socially/culturally for decades with all the gay stuff, men vs women, now the trannies etc.

In light of the coronavirus it's interesting to see that he predicts (so it will be) that nanobots will be used in medicine, meaning some sort of eugenics in fact, and resulting in avoiding illnesses etc. This is how it'll be marketed of course, but we see some of this stuff already in the ''vaccine'' with the mRNA gene modification/therapy/editing. This will be used to usher in a complete transforming of what the human body and its system against illnesses is.


 

Samseau

Peacock
Orthodox
Gold Member
All this transhumnism stuff is a fad, pushed by fools who believe they know more than they actually do, seeking to avoid their inevitable death. The quest for immortality is one of the most ancient vainglories of all men, of all time, and this is no different. Ray Kurzweil is a massive fraud who's been consistently wrong on his predictions for nearly 20 years.

I remember reading him in 2007, and he predicted by 2011 we'd all be using some kind of eyewear computer to manage our day to day tasks. A working prototype wasn't even produced until Google Glass created one in 2013. It did not work well at all, and they tried to get it working for years but after 5 years of failure they discontinued the project in 2017. Just one of many failed Kurzweil predictions that no one ever seems to mention. People just keep talking abut this guy like he's some kind of prophet, when his falsity is obvious to anyone who does more than a cursory examination of his claims.

Kurzweil is just some Gewish kook running a scam on lots of gullible goys. He's done quite well for himself as a huckster. Honestly I will enjoy watching these Transhumanist pagans choke on their own pride, it's entirely predicting. They all believe themselves WAY smarter (Musk included) than they actually are.
 
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