[This show first aired March 17, 2008.] 

Michael Anissimov discusses transhumanism and its philosophical underpinnings.

 

"Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism"

– Eliezer Yudkowsky

 

Stephen mentioned the (very) short story he wrote about Leon Kass. It is titled "The Treatment."

 

"One of the biggest flaws in the common conception of the future is that the future is something that happens to us, not something we create."

- Michael Anissimov

This quote was first published here at The Speculist and was reprinted in Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near.

Michael Anissimov pointed us to both the A.I. Panic! blog and to the Lifeboat Foundation.