Defining transhumanism ... Why David is pessimistic about the Singularity ... Becoming happier by shifting our "hedonic set points" ... Could we phase out suffering by tackling its genetic roots? ... Can chemicals deliver enduring happiness? ... Why David has never tasted meat ... Is transhumanism a secular religion? ...

MeaningofLife.tv: The Meaning of Future Life

Transhumanism today (Robert Wright & David Pearce)

Adam's new book, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth ... Adam: Climate change is a civilizational inevitability ... How many planets are in our galaxy? Guess again. It’s more than that. ... How pessimists about the existence of extraterrestrial life became optimists ... Why haven't we heard from any aliens? ... Does fighting climate change require spiritual change? ... Why the Gaia hypothesis isn't new-age hooey ... The theoretical archaeology of exo-civilizations ...

Light of the Stars (Robert Wright & Adam Frank)

The time Michael thought he was being abducted by aliens ... Michael's new book, Heavens on Earth ... Deepak Chopra's afterlife ... Why uploading your brain to achieve immortality makes no sense ... Is radical life extension just bunk? ... The Second Coming, presented by Ray Kurzweil ... What consolation can the atheist offer to the dying? ... The spookiest thing that's ever happened to Michael ...

Heavens on Earth (Robert Wright & Michael Shermer)

Why transhumanists want to escape their biological prisons ... The “singularity” and the culture of Silicon Valley ... How biohackers turn technology into performance art ... How do you upload an immaterial mind? ... Over-the-counter life extension: does it work? ...

To Be a Machine (Robert Wright & Mark O'Connell)

Nick Bostrom: there’s a 25% chance of 'existential catastrophe' by 2100 ... Reasons to fear superintelligent machines… ... …and the growing accessibility of biotechnology ... Why space colonization probably won’t save us ... Did climate change nurture ISIS? ... Technological progress as a bug, not a feature ...

Existential threats (Robert Wright & Phil Torres)

How to raise a good robot ... The moral development of machines ... The trouble with robots who can reason ... Will AI have feelings? ... Is it wrong to hurt a zombie? ... How AI could shape human morality ...

Raising good robots (James Hughes & Regina Rini)

The bad effects of addictive tech ... How much time do you spend on your phone? ... You might be addicted if... ... The World of Warcraft as a case study in tech addiction ... The tricks Silicon Valley uses to get you hooked ... Adam’s advice for breaking your screen addiction ...

The Rise of Addictive Technology (Robert Wright & Adam Alter)

When technology takes people’s jobs ... Asking your iPhone for medical advice ... Killer robots! ... Letting machines decide whether to push the nuclear button ... The growing threat of bioterrorism ... How to stop bioterrorists ... Is it all happening too fast? ...

Dangerous machines (Robert Wright & Wendell Wallach)

Changing the human genome to combat climate change ... Will new technologies stratify society genetically? ... Military and civilian uses of memory-changing technology ... The army’s plans for deep brain simulation ... Matthew's book The Right to Be Loved ...

Biotechnology (Robert Wright & S. Matthew Liao)

Transhumanism and the singularity ... Teilhard de Chardin’s "Omega Point" ... The (theoretical) physics of immortality and resurrection ... The theism of the simulation theory ... Any word on transhumanist Islam or Judaism? ... Christianity and globalization ...

Christian Transhumanism (Robert Wright & Micah Redding)

What is transhumanism? ... Is immortality possible? ... Using wormholes to resurrect the dead ... Could you rewind the universe? ... Transhumanism as a religion ... Why Giulio calls himself a theist ...

Transhumanism as a religion (Robert Wright & Giulio Prisco)

Should we really worry about robots taking our jobs? ... Fighting racism with algorithms ... Are AI advances mostly hype? ... Using AI to make technology more secure ... The robot economy is coming ... Do robots have moral value? ...

Ethics and artificial intelligence (Robin Hanson & James Hughes)

Louis’s “meduso-anthropic” theory and the meaning of life ... Creating new universes (literally) ... Using black holes to power starships ... How black-hole starships could unite humanity ... Reality as a simulation and the wise alien scenario ...

The meduso-anthropic principle (Robert Wright & Louis Crane)

Kevin Kelly's new book The Inevitable ... Technology as an extension of evolution ... Will Google monopolize AI? ... How to foster an ethical AI ... People of the screen ... The importance of seeing the glass as half-full ...

The Inevitable (Robert Wright & Kevin Kelly)

Michael’s book, The Internet of Us, and “neuromedia” ... How Google short circuits our critical faculties ... Dangers of the “hive mind” ... The echo chamber effect and how to combat it ... How tech has—and has not—changed the way we learn ... Privacy in the age of big data ...

(Robert Wright & Michael Lynch)

From artificial intelligence to transhumanism to space colonization and beyond, The Meaning of Future Life examines the shape of things to come.

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