[ExI] Fellow transhumanist behind scihub

[Anders Sandberg]

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/alexandra-elbakyan-founded-sci-hub-thwart-journal-paywalls
> First she worked in Moscow in computer security for a year, and then 
> she used the earnings to launch herself to the University of Freiburg 
> in Germany in 2010, where she joined a brain-computer interface 
> project. She was lured by the possibility that such an interface could 
> one day translate the thought content from one mind and upload it to 
> another. But the work fell short of her dreams. “The lab activity was 
> spiritless,” she says. “There was no feeling of pursuing a higher goal.” 
> Elbakyan did find a community of like-minded researchers in 
> transhumanism, a lofty field that encompasses not just neuroscience 
> and computer technology but also philosophy and even speculative 
> fiction about the future of humanity. She discovered a transhumanism 
> conference in the United States and set her heart on attending, but 
> she struggled to get a U.S. visa. She was rejected the first time and 
> only barely made it to the conference.


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Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University