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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/04/2013 19:17, spike wrote:<br>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">>…</span> I will be extremely
annoyed (and yet paradoxically entertained and perhaps even
titillated) if I learn that one or more of the GIMPS discoverers
bought their way to godhood<span style="color:#1F497D">… </span>spike</div>
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Now, a market for godhood sounds rather extropian. A market for
honorary godhood may be a bad thing (it is supposed to be a honor),
but it would be great for real godhood since no doubt the prices
would come down as it was commoditized. <br>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">There is not even any point in being
a geek if one cannot be weird.</span></div>
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Yeah, mainstream geekery is so bland. <br>
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Sometimes I feel like a hipster: "I was a transhumanist before it
was cool!" Yesterday I gave a lecture to senior civil servants in
the UK government. I was presented as a transhumanist and nobody
raised an eyebrow, and afterwards several people said things
straight out of our list discussions. If people in suit and tie can
discuss bitcoin, skill uploads and big data tracking of changes in
human nature over a glass of wine in the Churchill Room of the
Treasury Department, then these ideas are no longer very weird.<br>
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Obviously we need to weird out more. Tomorrow I will give a talk
about the future of enhancement. What is the strangest enhancements
we can envision that seem remotely possible given current science?<br>
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Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University </pre>
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