[ExI] Fellow transhumanist behind scihub

[Giulio Prisco]

Love Sci-Hub, LibGen and Alexandra. I could never read all the books
and papers I want to read without.

G.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
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> http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/alexandra-elbakyan-founded-sci-hub-thwart-journal-paywalls
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>> 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
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