[extropy-chat] Mark Pesce: Terror and Transhumanism

[Nicholas Anthony MacDonald]

VRML Creator and Transhumanist Mark Pesce recently gave a lecture at Stanford titled "Terror and Transhumanism", in which he sounds off on the singularity, communications theory, nanotech, the singularity- and, unfortunately woefully misrepresents the Extropians.

He refers to Extropians as the "extremist" wing of the Transhumanist movement, associates extropianism exclusively as "uploading"- and, here's the kicker, suggests that Extropians haven't studied philosophy- which is definitely a slander against Dr. More and Dr. Bostrom!

Other than that, good lecture- the first 2/3rds are definitly worth a listen:

http://www.hyperreal.org/%7Empesce/StanfordLecture.mp3

-Nicq MacDonald