Peter Thiel at Singularity Summit 2011 Tuesday, Dec 20 2011
Max Tegmark at Singularity Summit 2011 Tuesday, Dec 20 2011
Extreme Futurist Festival was a Success! Monday, Dec 19 2011
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Eliezer Yudkowsky at Singularity Summit 2011 Sunday, Dec 11 2011
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Jaan Tallinn at Singularity Summit 2011 Sunday, Dec 11 2011
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Rachel Haywire Describes the Extreme Futurist Festival Wednesday, Dec 7 2011
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The event is the 16th and 17th in Los Angeles. Tickets are on sale now, and the full schedule is up. This festival, the first of its kind, will feature artists, speakers, musicians, and performers.
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Extreme Futurist Festival Sunday, Nov 20 2011
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My latest project is Extreme Futurist Festival, a multi-media transhumanist arts and culture festival in Los Angeles. We are billing the festival as “counterculture meets academia”.
We have a good speaker roster up, with a couple more speakers to be added, including myself. Abstracts and the final program will be posted this week.
There will be tons of live music, including Hanin Elias, formerly of Atari Teenage Riot.
The festival will be the 16th-17th at Courtyard Los Angeles Marina del Rey. Tickets are only $50, so buy them up now!
Transhumanism is such an exciting movement, but it needs to attract more artists & culture creators of every kind, and for those artists to be exposed to our traditional core memes, and for the curators of our core memes to be exposed to more art. Help me push forward this crucial dynamic by attending the festival.
See you in Los Angeles next month!
Singularity Summit 2011 Videos Now Online Friday, Nov 18 2011
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See them all at SIAI’s YouTube channel.
More than 500 photos are also online at SIAI’s Flickr account.
Humanity+ @ Hong Kong Monday, Nov 7 2011
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Ben Goertzel, AGI engineer and transhumanist leader/activist is organizing what he calls “the first conference on the future of humanity in the continent of Asia”.
Humanity+ @ Hong Kong
Chiang Chen Studio Theatre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
December 3rd + 4th 2011
http://hk.humanityplus.org/
Ben explains the idea behind the conference:
Jaan Tallinn Speaks at Singularity Summit 2011 Friday, Oct 21 2011
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“Balancing the Trichotomy”
Jaan Tallinn
Individual rights vs collective good: historically, to promote these competing values, societies sought balance between the two. Powerful technologies, however, are turning this dichotomy into a trichotomy. Today, we must consider the interests of individuals, modern society, and future societies that our actions will affect. Present and future societies interests’ clash most famously in matters of pollution and global warming, but the stakes are much higher that these slow-moving crises would suggest. Emerging technologies may prove so disruptive that future societies cannot control their impact. I will discuss the reasons that people are ill-equipped to manage the trichotomy and propose ways to address this pivotal problem.
Singularity Summit 2011 Saturday, Jul 2 2011
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The press release for SS11 is posted. Featuring Ken Jennings, Christof Koch, Tyler Cowen, Ray Kurzweil, and many others. The venue will be the same as 2009 — the 92nd St. Y in New York City.
The theme we are pegging this year’s conference to is the Watson victory.
Registration is here, register early because price will go up:
https://www.singularitysummit.com/registration/
October 15-16, 2011. Press passes are available for actual press, ask me about it.
If the Singularity movement is an outgrowth of the Russian Orthodox Church, as Stross argues, then this would be our Pascha.
