I have not visited this sub in many years, but I used to follow it actively. My question is : what do you think about the contents of this video and what Bengio says about the dangers of AI?

https://v.redd.it/y0qkf19k0c4e1

I have an exam tomorrow on this specific subject but I don't like it, I personally consider it as a waste of time and money but I guess you guys like it. If you have any argument to prove it's great or an explanation of what it is actually about I'll be glad to read about it. (Sorry if I sound offensive)

We could have no miscommunication, eliminate inequality of knowledge, improved governance, have seamless global cooperation and other things but anyway that's my opinion what's yours?

I am in AI. I work with LLMs and to this day get quite excited when there are new model releases. I believe our rapid technological evolution will lead to cultural evolution (to adapt) and , in turn, biological evolution due to the Baldwin effect.

Taken this as true for the sake of argument, will human cognition look like as we "evolve" eventually due to rapid technological and cultural evolution? Or specifically, what's you're opinion about what lies beyond baseline human cognition?

I have some ideas:

1. Suppressed response to vagus nerve and gut signals

2. More inclination to truth furnishing frameworks scoured of the metaphysics of "fictional" magical thinking stories

3. Systems thinking and systems engineering

4. Likely espousing belief-sets that are repeatable, testable, verifiable

5. More expanded cosmic view guided by cosmology and biological evolution

6. Suppressed affect and social sensitivities

Do you think it's possible because I'm really interested in the research and applications?

the condition of autism has been studyied a while and some like elon musk want to quote"cure it" with cybernetics. but i got to thinking what if instead of trying to eradicate it autism we try to turm it into an asset for the person it does have some benifits for instance computer companys use alot of autistic programers the brain paterns and the military tend to use them for interprating map data to find where enemys altered tmay have altered things. these are of course high functioning ones but this still proves my point the condition with very primitive techniques were turned into an asset and there is the ones with a super skill. so what advanced techniques or technology's that will be possible soon could turn autistics condition into an amazing asset for them and what form should it take?

Curious!

There's been some recent discussion about Humаnіty+, formerly the World Transһսmanіst Assοciation, and a few people have been interested in an overall discussion about the organization as a whole, and it under its current administration with the current executive director. I think it is beneficial to hold discussions like this about all types of organizations(including Transhumanist Council!) for serious discussion around the massive organizations that represent Transhumanism and emerging technologies as a whole.

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I do not consider myself to be autistic in any way but I was (mis)diagnosed with autism at some point during my childhood. My diagnosis was unfair and I have been horrifically discriminated against because of the diagnosis in my medical records, not because of any supposed symptoms.

I tried to get the diagnosis cleared by a psychiatrist but the psychiatrists have all affirmed the diagnosis, usually citing my supposedly monotone voice and supposedly strange speech patterns while providing no other symptoms that fit the criteria, when I try to reason with them and adamantly insist that I’m not autistic, they pull another symptom out of their ass and insist I’m being rigid.

How can I modify my brain in such a way as to remove any traits in me that are mistaken for autism symptoms? Is there any technology real or hypothetical that can help me?

I haven’t been a fan of the widely used H+ symbol for transhumanism. So I decided to try my hand at designing a new one. Inspired by the iconic humanist ‘Happy Human’ symbol, so I’ve created the Happy (Post) Human!

This is a free and open proposal—take it, use it, tweak it, or share your thoughts! I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas.

Answers used to include art and poetry, but we're seeing the bots get better at these by the day.

So now I wonder if the tide will inexorably keep rising, or if there are any skills or excellences that, by their very nature, remain unique to humans?

Just curious what y'all think

given er current events in the world it seems a new world war is a possibility so what does that mean for trans humanism. there is a possibility that people will lose interest in it to focus on the war effort seeing it as frivolous or possibly embrace its development to repair those hurt help people adapt to the new global conditions and produce things like super soldiers. so which is the more likly also please comment on why you think that is the case

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