Erik Starck skriver ett mycket välformulerat inlägg ang. varför förflyttning av vår fysiska kropp i många sammanhang kommer att bli mindre viktigt, framöver. Det är inte bara bostadsmarknaden som kommer att behöva en justering - vad händer med alla dyra kontor när anställda lätt och ledigt kan mötas virtuellt hela dagarna utan att det måste ske i en viss stads centrum?
Internet · Simulation · Swedish · Transhumanism · Virtualreality
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“it’s better to burn out than to fade away” (From Neil Young’s My My, Hey Hey - and known for being quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note) I remember my teenage years well. I also remember voicing the opinion above, along with other things along the lines of “life ends at 30”. I’m 42, almost to the day. I have no intention whatsoever of fading away. I consider myself a transhumanist , and I spent some time being a board member of the Swedish subcategory of Humanity+ . I subscribe to the idea of aging being just another disease we haven’t cured yet, and I eagerly follow the current state of research on the subject. One development in particular, popularised by the company Elysium, is a combination of substances that counteracts one of the possible sources of a lot of age related problems, the declining quality of communication between our cell nucleus and the mitochondria that powers it. The list of things this affects (effects, even) is quite long - and for quite some time now there have been promising tests on yeasts and mice on how to counteract this decline, in effect boosting the levels back to where they were when we were younger. A few weeks ago the results of the first clinical human tests were published, and I am since five days on the same formula as Elysium sells under the brand Elysium Basis . It consists of 250mg of Nicotinamide Riboside, taken together with 50mg of Pterostilbene, once a day.
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Fountain of Youth - the two month update
Today it’s exactly two months since I started on my "Elysium Basis" regime . Since quite a few of my friends have asked me to write an update on my thoughts about it - here it is.
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How do you live a life forever?
If you belong to generation X , this might apply to you. If you belong to generation Y or the mythical Z , it most certainly does.
English · Simulation · Transhumanism
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[it’s teh book review] A few weeks ago I read an interesting book; I am a strange loop - by Douglas Hofstadter. He’s quite famous for earlier works, and this book is supposed to set the record straight regarding some things he felt didn’t came out right earlier. I don’t know - I haven’t read his previous material.
Book · Consciousness · English · Transhumanism
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Seasonal Affective Disorder - SAD. wikipedia also known as winter depression, winter blues […] or seasonal depression, was considered a mood disorder in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year experience depressive symptoms in the winter […]
English · SAD · Science · SSRI · Transhumanism
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Singularity Summit 2009 - report
(In Swedish at least for the time being. To view the tweets in English I wrote during the conference, use this search )
Consciousness · Culture · Science · Simulation · Swedish · Transhumanism · Virtualreality
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The delta between an LLM and consciousness
With Facebook’s release of LLaMa , and the subsequent work done with its models by the open community , it’s now possible to run a state of the art “GPT-3 class” LLM on regular consumer hardware. The 13B model, quantized to 4-bit, runs fine on a GPU with ~9GB free VRAM.
AGI · AI · English · LLM · Transhumanism
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Yes, humans are going to end up in life sustaining pods, fed nutrients through an automatic delivery system and with our nervous system connected to a huge computer network.
English · Internet · Simulation · Transhumanism · Virtualreality
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[it’s teh book review] I’ve just finished reading Don’t Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking - a book dealing with the common mistakes us humans often make when judging events in the world around us. Depending on how much you already know about those pitfalls the book might be anything from a yawn to a revelation.
Book · Consciousness · English · Funny · Transhumanism
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