Will we be fucking after we leave our bodies behind for cyber - heaven ? Over atSteal this Singularity , futurist gadfly R.U. Sirius has a screaming and smart essay about mass who imagine we will exceed sex activity and random goofiness after the Army Intelligence take over .
After render home from yearly futurist league Singularity Summit last year , Sirius realized that nobody was addressing how our messy human desires and weirdness would be preserved in the coming old age of intelligent machines . He write :
Singularitarianism and — more broadly — transhumanism — has make a veritable oversupply of abstract theorizing , so whatever novel perception or objections or worry one may reckon one is bringing to the political party , some smarty pants has probably swatted it away or incorporated it into its logical integrality .
On the other script , if there was a role for artist in [ the fantast conference ] Singularity Summit 2012 , I did n’t notice it . Sex — a chief desire for most humans — seemed to be almost unmentionable , if not completely primitive . Heightened subjective states of consciousness — XTC , agape , rapture — seem to be well off the map . . .
This lack — this ostensible negligence or denial or trivialization of non - obvious aspects of subjective human experience and peculiarity — may try out to be of minimum importance if transhuman techno - evolution Newmarket inadequate of the Singularity . If we do n’t plan silicon intelligences that will , for all intents and purpose , replace us — or at least rule our original biological brains if we take them within us — but , if rather , we simply finish up with tools that amplify and enhance , then there ’s a fairish hope for a diversity of mindstyles . Some will accumulate inLess Wrongcommunities where they will continuously refine rationalness ; some will live in an eonian , amplified Burning Man of live art , display and playful deviance ; most will dunk into both these and other memeplex scenes while mesh in a world rich in opportunity for all possible expression of humanness or posthumanness .
Read the balance of this essay over atSteal this Singularity
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