Accelerating Future

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Last night I talked to Chris Williamson of Blogging the Singularity, for his first podcast. I look forward to interviews with others on this podcast in the future.

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My interview with RU Sirius has been made into a transcript and posted online, for your skimming pleasure. This was the first time I got to meet RU in the flesh, after having bought his 1992 book, Mondo 2000: A User’s Guide to the New Edge, at a garage sale when I was 16. I think he is pretty cool and I like the way he is giving numerous transhumanists and intelligent futurists publicity nowadays.

In other news, Eliezer Yudkowsky was interviewed recently by Cameron Reilly, an Australian podcast mogul. He’s also interviewed other familiar people you may have heard of, like Aubrey de Grey, Ray Kurzweil, etc. You can find the links to those other interviews right there on the page. This is not the best podcast ever… if you’ve never listened or read anything of Eliezer’s before then I would recommend this video first.

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On Sunday I was interviewed by cyberculture icon RU Sirius, in his San Francisco studio! It was for his Neofiles show, not the RU Sirius show proper, but the above image was just too good not to use. One more interview coming soon!

Small correction here: I am not the spokesperson for the Lifeboat Foundation, just the fundraising director. Phillippe van Nedervelde is our official International Spokesperson. I might be considered a spokesperson however, not just the primary one, which would be Phillippe. In the interview I also trip over my own words a few times because this whole thing is new to me!

And Kheanna, please don’t take offense to my comment on “gothic streetwalkers” in SecondLife near the end. When I say that SecondLife primarily consists of furries and goths, I’m slightly exaggerating just to be cute. The point isn’t that I dislike furries or goths (if you look at my closet it’s somewhat similar to staring into the dead of night), just that SecondLife is nowhere near reflecting the diversity of humanity as a whole quite yet. I think that progressively more complex and diverse virtual worlds will emerge, but I find it doubtful that any of the current virtual worlds (WoW, SL) will actually evolve to become primary VR dwelling spaces of a future uploaded humanity. There will be new companies, with new virtual worlds (Spore, anyone?) that eclipse prior ones. So that’s my opinion on that.

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About a week ago I got interviewed by James Hughes! Good show but the sound quality is not perfect as I’m on a cell phone. If you want me to do an interview for your blog or website, please feel free to email me at any time.

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