amor mundi

Via Pharyngula , h/t -- JimF , some especially apt words on people who pine after perpetual life from the last interview of the mainly marve...

The metaphor of the "mixed economy" is absolutely mystifying. The idea of sustainable, consensual equity-in-diversity, of democ...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot , from an ongoing exchange with a self-declared champion of aristocracy: It is true that important kno...

It will come as no surprise to Amorous Mudyites that a high-profile (in a big fish, small pond kinda sorta way) transhumanoid trio is castin...

Also published at the World Future Society . In a recent conference promoting not only their latest gizmos but their company's animati...

Farhad Manjoo makes what he calls The Case For Surveillance in Slate today. "We Need More Cameras," rings out his thesis in a tit...

Upgraded and adapted from an exchange in the Moot to this post. This comment: Through centuries of education human beings have naturally ...

I participated in a panel on Transhumanism and Posthumanism at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting last weekend, sponsore...

Also published at the World Future Society . Over at the Robot Cult outfit IEET, the Institute for Ethics (where actual ethics are rarely ...

This is just a reminder that I'll be presenting a brief talk and participating in a panel discussion about posthumanism (fellow panelist...

Also published at the World Future Society . Paul Krugman is right to say that the cancellation of Google Reader provides yet another de...

All-Wrong "Less Wrong" Robot Cult Guru Wannabe Eliezer Yudkowsky : The transhuman technologies -- molecular nanotechnology, advanc...

I'm still sorting through old boxes in my office, scaling down sedimented layers of papers, dissertation drafts, MA exams, seminar paper...

Prioritizing a "right" elaborated nowhere in the Constitution of a minority of gun-owners -- however "nice" they assure ...

Upgraded from the Moot It is important to expose even the wackier Robot Cultists to the extent that [1] they are saying things that cert...

The singularitarian and techno-immortalist Robot Cultists who throng the tinpot-fiefdom of Less Wrong apparently had a minor tempest in the...

I've completely updated and re-organized The Superlative Summary . I can't believe how long it took to do this, but I am hoping it i...

Upgraded and adapted from the Moot to this post, a reader asks: Absolutely excellent rebuttal against libertarian verbal and "intellec...

Via Wired : Mars One... intends to establish a human settlement on Mars in 2023. They need astronauts. Anyone on planet Earth can apply if ...