Lincoln Cannon

@lincolncannon

1 Following

9 Followers

Lincoln Cannon pfp

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Sure. The basic idea is to use the readily available tech we have now to make marginal improvements to our cognition and longevity, hoping that these marginal improvements increase the odds of participating in more substantial therapies later.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

To clarify, the argument isn’t about the existence of God. The argument is essentially that there are practical reasons we should trust in the existence of superhumanity, which may qualify as God by some interpretations.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

In this case, it IS science fiction — or at least starts there. That’s part of the strength of the argument.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Right. The argument is agnostic to the ontology of the created worlds. We could consider them more or less real than the worlds that create them.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Yeah. A generalization of the Simulation Argument is part of the Creation Argument. The logic and math don’t depend on any particular creation mechanism, simulation or otherwise.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Happy Easter! May you live forever -- embodied. https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/03/aspire-to-embodied-immortality.html

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Ha. Well, I sell the ones that I use. :) But I don’t intend them to be more than a temporary assistant.

1 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

That’s worth thinking about.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Are you familiar with the New God Argument? It starts with secular premises, consistent with a Transhumanist perspective, and ends with conclusions that have strong theological resonance, particularly with Mormonism. https://new-god-argument.com/

1 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Yeah. It seems somewhat cyclical. But many e/acc are comparatively bioconservative, not having thought deeply enough about the evolutionary ramifications of acceleration.

1 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

FarcasterMarketing pfp

FarcasterMarketing

@quillingqualia.eth

Makes sense, I can draw many parallels between my religious upbringing Vs the transhumanist future I now look forward to.

0 reply

1 recast

1 reaction

Venkatesh Rao ☀️ pfp

Venkatesh Rao ☀️

While I enjoy the fun upside end of crypto futurism, full of people living out transhumanist accelerationist futures in metaverses run on digital goods economics, if that’s the only future in your forecast spread, that’s naïveté

0 reply

1 recast

2 reactions

Frogzu🎩🍖 🎭 pfp

Frogzu🎩🍖 🎭

Transhumanist philosophy will turn us into Gods Yuval Harari already says Homo Deus

0 reply

1 recast

1 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

I doubt death analogs will ever be entirely obsolete. But I do think we may someday experience a world where it’s harder to stay dead than alive.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Potentially, neural prosthetics could serve as live backups, and then extensions into corporal prosthetics, and then replacements as biological parts become too costly to maintain.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Lincoln Cannon pfp

Ha. Yeah. Nothing quite like Oxford Jesus for inspiring incredulity.

1 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Lincoln Cannon pfp

One of the mechanisms that religion leverages to perform its social function is provocation. And weirdness can help with that.

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction