[ExI] A better way of saying "transhumanism" (re: twobits.net)

[Damien Broderick]

At 02:49 PM 8/3/2008 -0500, you wrote:
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 
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>in http://heybryan.org/transhumanism_def.html what was
>successfully achieved in: http://twobits.net/discuss/chapter2
>
>^H˜]›Üš]H˜[œÚ[X[š\Ý\È]YÙ[ˆLeitl (who is, in fact, an
> > authentic transhumanist and has been vice-chair of the World
> > Transhumanist Association). Eugen is Russian-born, lives in Munich,
> > and once worked in a cryobiology research lab. He is well versed in
>Ú[Z\ÝžK˜[›ÝXÚ›ÛÙÞK\YšXÚX[Z[[YÙ[˜ÙH
>@I) research,
> > computational- and network-complexity research, artificial organs,
> > cryobiology, materials engineering, and science fiction. He writes,
>›Üˆ^[\K€£â76
> >
>Yˆ[ÝHÛÛœÚY\ˆRH[™ÛÙYžH[X[œËY\ˈÝÙ]€er, given
> > considerable computational resources (XÝXšXÈmeter of computronium),
> > and using suitable start population, you can coevolve machine
> > intelligence on a time scale of much less than a year. After it
> > achieves about a human level, it is potentially capable of entering
>[€ autofeedback loop. Given that even autoassembly-grade computronium
>\ÈØ\X›HÙˆ[›š[™ÈH[X[‹YܘYH[[XÀt in a volume ranging
> > from a sugar cube to an orange at a speed ranging from 10^4 . . .
> > 10^6 it is easy to see that the autofeedback loop has explosive
> > dynamics. (I hope above is intelligible, I’ve been exposed to weird
> > memes for far too long).30
>ˆ
>͏‚‚WVvVâ—2Ç6òolymath (and an autodidact to boot), but in the
> > conventional sense. Eugen’s polymathy is an avocational necessity:
>˜[œÚ[X[š\ÝÈ™YYÈÙY\\Ú][Y˜[˜Ù\È@n technology and
>ØÚY[˜ÙH[ˆÜ™\ˆÈ™]\ˆ\ÜÙ\ÜÈÚ] kinds of human-augmenting or
> > human-obsolescing technologies are out there. It is not for work in
> > this world that the transhumanist expands his or her knowledge, nor
>  quite for the next, but for a “this world” yet to arrive.
> >
>
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Testing.

Maybe I'm going to have to read this stuff on the archive.