[ExI] biops

[spike]

>... On Behalf Of Giulio Prisco
Subject: Re: [ExI] biops

>...See
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-video-series-aims-to-popularize-transhumanism-
kickstarter-launched

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
>>... Anyone knows who's behind this?
>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTMS9y8OVuY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDC35pcr-Fg

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The British Institute of Posthuman Studies does not have much of a web
presence yet, but this video is excellent, thanks Gene.  It gave me an idea.

Transhumanist videos have that polished often British accent that sounds so
articulate and erudite.  What if... we were to write a script with all the
most cutting edge transhumanist notions, then record it in whatever we can
think of that would be the most opposite to that, or rather a counterpart.
Imagine for instance this script spoken in a Junior Samples accent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRyfJer6gU

We would clean up Junior's grammar, but keep the strumming dobro in the
background and his slow-talking Southern pronunciation as he discusses the
latest breakthroughs in transhumanism and the future of humanity.  Would not
this put a whole new spin on things?

I might be able to write a script and do the accent.  I don't talk that way
now, but I know how to do it; I used to sound a more like Junior in my
misspent youth than I do now.  Old friends from my childhood now tell me I
speak with a foreign accent.

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