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A NOTE FROM DR. J.
Surprisingly I had not watched Michael Moore’s Sicko, a documentary about the failures of the American healthcare system, until tonight. My thirteen year-old son and I watched it while working out on our elliptical machines. I was interested in his reaction, his growing sense of youthful disbelief and outrage, while jaded I was simply sad and bemused. I confess I did cry. But my overall reaction was simply shame that I have not done more to fight for universal healthcare coverage in the last decade.
My father was a Blue Cross Vice President, an actuary, and my mother was a lobbyist for public mental health services. Our family was deep into healthcare politics from about 1965 on, when the first attempts at public coverage were enacted in the United States, Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor. From then on my parents grew increasingly disgusted with the failures of American health insurance, and both strongly supported a public, universal health insurance program like Canada’s.
My experience of public universal coverage was during my two years in Sri Lanka and my year in Japan. My now wife, then girlfriend, had contracted amoebic dysentery while briefly visiting me in Sri Lanka. She was treated for months after in Japanese hospitals for free, as was I for more minor ailments when I joined her later. It wasn’t until I returned to the U.S. and began to study health policy at the University of Chicago that I began to understand what a radical failure the American disordered “system” is in comparison to rest of the industrial world.
During the 1994 Clinton health care reform push bioethicists I worked with or knew were part of the “committee of 500” that drafted the Clinton plan. Although I supported single payer universality for its political and administrative simplicity, I was won over to the virtues of a Clinton-style system universal voucher based choice, one which could ensure relatively equitable healthcare for all while allowing a greater diversity of healthcare options than a single payer system. One of the things I read at the time that influenced my views was Ezekiel Emanuel’s The Ends of Life, which also argued for universal vouchers with a choice of multiple plans, as Emanuel did again most recently in his book with the highly respected Victor Fuchs in Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America. (You may recognize Emanuel as the head bioethicist at the NIH, chief healthcare advisor to Obama administration, and brother to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.)
Frankly I would have been happy with either single payer or a universal voucher system like the Clintons’ and Emanuel’s, but on the margin I was intrigued with the idea that with a universal voucher we might have a Catholic health plan without birth control or abortion, an alternative medicine health plan with homeopathy, and a transhumanist health insurance plan that could spend a lot on experimental gene therapies and life extension drugs, but shave costs by sticking you in a vat of liquid nitrogen if you had a bad prognosis.
The Republicans and the health insurance industry demagogued the Clinton plan to death in 1994, calling it “socialism,” like every other attempt at health insurance reform since 1914. And they are doing the same thing today, aided now by their Faustian alliance with the frothing, right-wing conspiracy-mongers, gun nuts, racists and anti-government activists collectively known as “teabaggers.” The difference is that this time the reforms on the table offer far less in terms of regulation of health insurance than in 1994.
The big difference this time is that the proposed reforms will ensure that the 50 million Americans without health insurance will have a public insurance option to choose in addition to the private health insurance options. In the 1994 proposal every Health Insurance Purchasing Cooperative would have had to ensure that there was at least one fee-for-service, one PPO, and one HMO to choose from, all non-governmental. This time, at least in the more progressive House version of health reform, we would be guaranteed a choice of a for-profit health care or a public health insurance plan.
This is not socialism, and not a government take-over of health care, although I confess that I wouldn’t lose any sleep if the public option grew and eventually drove out private health insurance.
Now the craven sold-out right wing of the Democratic Party in the Senate, pockets bulging with health care lobby money, wants to remove the public option in their mind-numbingly futile effort at seeking “bipartisan consensus” on healthcare.
How can we have bipartisan consensus with people practicing the Big Lie straight out of the Goebbels playbook? People inventing their own Protocols of the Elders of Zeke, screaming that “Obama is a Communist Nazi” and that the Democrats want to kill old people?
The opportunity for healthcare reform comes once every twenty years in the United States. By 2029 we will have gene therapies, anti-aging therapies, organ and tissue engineering, and nanomedicine. Today being uninsured will take a couple years off your life expectancy. In 2029 even fewer people will have health insurance, and being without will take decades off your life expectancy. Today our exploding healthcare costs from wasteful, for-profit administrative costs and overtreatment are already crippling the American economy. The health cost cancer will be unimaginably worse without reform in twenty years.
Don’t get me wrong: I would still support reform legislation without a public option, if only to ban insurance companies from screening for pre-existing conditions, one of the most obscene practices of American health care. And the reforms will still attempt to mandate a kind of universality, by requiring everyone to purchase healthcare, with subsidies if necessary. (The Clinton reforms would have ensured universality by issuing every citizen a voucher.) But we can and should do far better.
This is an essential technoprogressive value: every person should be ensured access to life enabling benefits of safe, effective biotechnology. In every other industrialized country the debate over enabling technologies is whether they are safe and effective enough to be included in the universal health plan. I fervently hope that, after more than one hundred years of American health reform agitation, we can finally create a system mature enough to allow that debate here.
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IEET NEWS
No Consensus on Cloning Neanderthals (Aug 21, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20090821/
IEET readers are split on the question of whether we should seek to clone our Neanderthal cousins. In a recently concluded poll, 47% of respondents say No and only 38% say Yes while 8% can’t decide.
IEET Readers’ Top Fear: Theocracy (Aug 12, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/poll20090812/
Asked what they fear most, IEET readers named ‘Theocracy’ as their top choice by a surprisingly wide margin in a recently concluded poll. Coming in second was ‘Totalitarian world government’. In third place was ‘Ecological collapse’ followed closely by ‘Global thermonuclear war’. No other answer was chosen by more than 10% of respondents.
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ARTICLES
Mike Treder: Are you ready for this? (Aug 22, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090822/
The first-ever video advertisement will be published in a traditional paper magazine in September.
Kyle Munkittrick: District 9 Rocks! (Aug 21, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/munkittrick20090821/
District 9 is one of those films that, when you examine it in pieces, it doesn’t seem that amazing. If you were to ask me about any specific piece of the film: the action, the cinematography, the effects, the acting, the writing, etc. I would say that it might fall in the “good” or “pretty good” category. As a whole, however, the film manages to constantly combine those “good” elements into great scenes and chains so many great scenes together that a truly wonderful and unique story results.
Doug Rushkoff: Economics is Not a Natural Science (Aug 21, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rushkoff20090821/
We must stop perpetuating the fiction that existence itself is dictated by the immutable laws of economics. These so-called laws are, in actuality, the economic mechanisms of 13th Century monarchs. Some of us analyzing digital culture and its impact on business must reveal economics as the artificial construction it really is. Although it may be subjected to the scientific method and mathematical scrutiny, it is not a natural science; it is game theory, with a set of underlying assumptions that have little to do with anything resembling genetics, neurology, evolution, or natural systems.
Mike Treder: Can movies tell the future? (Aug 21, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090821/
Almost since the dawn of cinema as an art form, movie makers have been eager to portray futuristic worlds. How well have they done?
Giulio Prisco: In Praise of Bill Bainbridge’s “Religion for a Galactic Civilization 2.0” (Aug 21, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/prisco20090823/
One of my first impressions after reading Bill Bainbridge’s 1981 essay “Religions for a Galactic Civilization” was that it was dated (well, it was written 26 years ago). I wrote: “If Bill were to write the same article today, he would probably mention NBIC technologies (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive sciences) besides space travel and colonization. I hope he would give less space to Scientology, and I am sure he would discuss the works of transhumanist thinkers in great detail. I think the first sentence quoted below could be written, today, as “We need a new transhumanist social movement capable of giving a sense of transcendent purpose to dominant sectors of the society””. I asked Bill to write a revised and updated version of the paper, to be published (translated into Italian) in the print journal Divenire of the Italian Transhumanist Association and then discussed at the TransVision 2010 conference. A first draft of the revised and updated version has just been posted to the IEET blog.
Jamais Cascio: Three Possible Economic Models (Part 1) (Aug 21, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/three_possible_economic_models_part_1/
Time to strap on the Futurist Cap for some serious speculation about what a 21st century economy might look like.
William Sims Bainbridge: Religion for a Galactic Civilization 2.0 (Aug 20, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bainbridge20090820/
Progress in spaceflight technology has halted at a level that is insufficient for colonization of the solar system, let alone for voyages to the stars. That grim fact was not obvious to me when I wrote the original version of this essay thirty years ago (Bainbridge 1982), but it is apparent now.
Mike Treder: Religious Education—and Other Oxymorons (Aug 20, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090820/
Does religion have any proper role in education? Can faith-based teachings, whether conducted in school, at home, or in places of worship be of benefit to individuals and societies?
Doug Rushkoff: Health Care Reform Without Public Option is Just Corporatism, Not Socialism (Aug 20, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rushkoff20090820/
The healthcare debate has gotten so weird, I think it’s time someone (I guess me) says what’s actually going on. I do not presume to have the answers to all of these problems (well, actually I think I have most of it figured out) but all I mean to do is share what appears to be happening. It is bizarre. Let’s start simple.
Mike Treder: Meanwhile, People Are Dying (Aug 18, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090818/
Fantasists ponder a future of superlongevity, superintelligence, and superabundance—as if wishing will make it happen. Meanwhile, people are dying.
Randall Mayes: All Hell Breaks Loose (The End of Science My Ass 2.0) (Aug 17, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/mayes20090817/
George Dvorsky’s July IEET article “The End of Science My Ass” counters the idea put forth in several publications that breakthroughs in basic science are hitting the wall. I would like to elaborate on two major points that George made. First, based on only a partial snapshot of the most important breakthroughs included in Dvorsky’s list, he concludes the rate of scientific breakthroughs is slowing down. This needs to be understood in the context of cycles in Kuhnian revolutions. Second, the main argument both Horgan and Masood were setting out to support is that ultimately revolutions in science, not scientific breakthroughs are reaching their limits.
Marcelo Rinesi: Computational Eudaemonics: Expert Happiness Systems (Aug 16, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/fe20090816/
This is an interview with Marko A. Rodriguez, a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Besides doing basic research on applied mathematics and computer science, he is doing work on computational eudaemonics — the use of computer algorithms to increase happiness by helping us make better decisions, even suggesting new options.
David Koepsell: Why I Believe Gene Patenting is Wrong, Although it is Currently Legal (Aug 16, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/koepsell20090816/
Before I left for an Alpine vacation of high altitude hiking, fresh air, and peace, I was pondering my response to Randall Mayes puzzlingly entitled: “In Defense of Patenting DNA: A Pragmatic Libertarian Perspective” published in Ethical Technology on July 26…
Martine Rothblatt: Can Consciousness be Created in Software? (Aug 15, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rothblatt20090815/
“Some men see things as they are and wonder why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not?” Robert F. Kennedy
Mike Treder: Blogging as Political Action (Aug 14, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090814/
How widespread is the “netroots” movement outside the United States?
Kyle Munkittrick: Subversive Movie Ad Campaigns (Aug 13, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/munkittrick20090813/
One of the glorious parts about living in NYC is that we get some of the more intense ad campaigns, particularly in the form of viral posters.
Aubrey de Grey: Can regenerative medicine defeat aging? (Aug 13, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/degrey20090813/
The relevance of nearly all biogerontology research to combating aging is restricted to the potential for slowing down the accumulation of molecular and cellular damage that eventually leads to age-related ill-health. Meanwhile, regenerative medicine has been progressing rapidly and is nearing clinical applicability to a wide range of specific conditions. My view is that we are approaching the point where regenerative medicine can be used against aging. This would entail not retarding but actually reversing the accumulation of damage. If successful, this would obviously be a far more valuable technology than mere slowing of aging. However, in order to be successful it must be comprehensive, and some aspects of aging may seem impossible to address in this way. In fact, however, it seems that all types of molecular and cellular damage which contribute to age-related ill-health are realistic targets of regenerative interventions.
Mike Treder: Cloning Neanderthals (Aug 12, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090812/
Neanderthals are the closest evolutionary cousins to modern humans. We shared the planet with them until about 30,000 years ago when we probably killed them off. Now, as genetic and cloning technologies continue to advance rapidly, we are gaining the ability to actually bring back the Neanderthals—to resurrect them as it were. Should we?
Jamais Cascio: New Rules for the Photoshop Era (Aug 12, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20090812/
Don’t believe everything that you read. Or pictures that you see. Or videos.
Mike Treder: Making Dogs Smarter Than Humans (Aug 11, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090811/
It’s long been assumed in transhumanist circles that eventually a computer program, a robot, a cyborg, or a genetically engineered human will achieve a far greater level of intelligence than the smartest human. Why not Fido?
Marcelo Rinesi: Creating Ecosystems for the Planet - and for Profit (Aug 10, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rinesi20090811/
Conserving ecosystems is not enough. Too much of the global ecosystem has already been damaged beyond recognition, and the economic and demographic pressures driving this deterioration are still present and, if anything, strengthened.
Mike Treder: Fast Moving Sidewalks (Aug 9, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090809/
The concept of a megalopolis based on high-speed walkways is common in science fiction. How long, if ever, until it becomes reality?
Kristi Scott: Andy Miah, Sports Doping, and the Enhancement Enlightenment (Aug 8, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20090808/
Andy Miah is the Renaissance man of the enhancement enlightenment. While best known for defending “doping” (performance enhancement) in sports, as a professor in Ethics and Emerging Technologies at the University of the West of Scotland, his work draws from law, philosophy, art, cultural studies, sociology, bioethics, human enhancement, social media, life-extension, ethical culture, climate change, synthetic biology, and artificial life. As if that isn’t enough, Miah says he’s now looking at architecture and the future, extraterrestrial ethics, and ideas about biocultural capital. (And just for fun, he’s also a graphic designer and film connoisseur.)
Ben Scarlato: True Blood and Personhood (Aug 7, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/scarlato20090807/
[Contains spoilers.] How far does personhood and the rights associated with it reach across species? True Blood gives us an intelligent exploration of some aspects of this issue, specifically when that other species is perceived as dangerous, cruel, unnatural, and unholy. Unfortunately though, too often even those who support vampire rights refer to them as not being persons, instead emphasizing that they are essentially human or that vampires are a second species deserving of rights. A much more adaptable framework of rights could be built based on emphasizing the characteristics of personhood, such as intelligence and capacity to feel.
Mike Treder: Creationism, Birtherism, Singularitarianism, and Other Fantasies (Aug 7, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090807/
What do Orly Taitz, Ken Ham, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and Max More have in common?
Jamais Cascio: The “End of Politics” Delusion (Aug 6, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20090806/
You have my express permission to kick the next person—especially someone advocating the embrace of radical forms of technological advancement—who tells you that they wish nothing more than to get rid of, move beyond, or otherwise avoid “politics.” Kick them hard, and repeatedly. They have adopted a profoundly ignorant and self-serving position, one that betrays at best a lack of understanding of human nature and society, and at worst a malicious desire to preemptively shut down any opposition to their goals.
Edward Miller: Intellectual Property Overreach (Aug 6, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miller20090803/
Continuing our effort to flesh out the parameters of technoprogressive policy ideas by building our “Technoprogressive Policy Wiki”, we turn now to the problems created by the push to patent everything, including human genes, and shut down all fair use and copying of music, texts and film. IEET intern Ed Miller has been engaged with open source and intellectual property issues for some time, and has taken a crack at a general policy statement on this issue. We welcome feedback. - J. Hughes
Mike Treder: What’s the Harm? (Aug 4, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090804/
What’s the big worry if some choose not to use critical thinking? The tragic answer is: at least 368,379 people killed; 306,096 injured; and over $2,815,931,000 in economic damages.
Jamais Cascio: How America Will End (Aug 4, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/cascio20090804/
A week-long thought experiment on the United States’ demise.
Natasha Vita-More: Human Enhancement Aesthetics (Aug 3, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore20090808/
Of all the new media impacting the arts, the media of human enhancement may be receiving the most socio-political attention but the least artistic enthusiasm.
Mike Treder: “Food Fight” or substantive debate? (Aug 3, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090803/
In the Editor’s Blog of his online transhumanist magazine, h+, RU Sirius describes the recent and ongoing debate between technoprogressives and some radical libertarians as a “Political Food Fight.”
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MULTIMEDIA
Unscientific America (Aug 22, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20090905/
Dr. J. chats with Duke marine biologist Sheril Kirschenbaum, co-author with Chris Mooney of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future. They discuss the efficacy of “new atheism,” STEM education, and the sexiness of science.
The Nature of Technology (Aug 22, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20090829/
Dr. J. chats with W. Brian Arthur about his book The Nature of Technology, which argues that technologies have a natural history - are composed prior technologies - and are subject to natural selection. (MP3)
Gamer Trailer (Aug 21, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/gamer_trailer/
Set in a future world where humans can control other humans in massively multiplayer online gaming environments, a star player from a game called “Slayers” looks to regain his independence while taking down the game’s mastermind.
Surrogates Trailer (Aug 19, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/surrogates_trailer/
Surrogates explores a world where humans can clone their minds into androids that they send out to do work for them. Based on a graphic novel series, and very similar in premise to David Brin’s Kiln People.
Conservatives Want to Keep Your Genes Pure (Aug 19, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/sp20090820/
Jonathan Moreno and John Neurohr discuss conservative anti-human-animal hybrid legislation.
Earth: A Century Hence (Aug 17, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/awa0908/
Humans will be around in a century, but – with bionic limbs and silicon neurons – would we recognize them? Includes an interview with Russell Blackford.
Conceding to the Right on Healthcare Reform (Aug 15, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20090815/
In which Dr. J. issues a formal concession to the right-wing-nuts that progressives have removed mandatory euthanasia, nationalizing hospitals, etc. from reform proposals. Also the cost-effectiveness of anti-aging therapies, and life happiness and wisdom increase with age. (MP3)
NetRoots Nation Report and Brain News (Aug 15, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20090822/
Mike Treder reports in from Pittsburgh PA on NetRoots Nation, an annual gathering of the progressive blogging community. Moneyshot Cosmonauts send up the Octomom with a parody of “Poker Face.” The broken part of psychopaths’ brain may be located. Jamais Cascio’s fantastic “Get Smarter”. (MP3)
Design Issues Concerning Extreme Life Extension (Aug 13, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore20090813/
Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the IEET’s Natasha Vita-More’s talk at April 11 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association.
The Singularity Film (Aug 13, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/wolens0908/
This feature length documentary will include interviews with the IEET’s James Hughes, Jamais Cascio, Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel, Nick Bostrom and Marshall Brain, as well as dozens of others from both inside and outside the S^ and H+ community. Coming December 2009.
The Posthuman Possibility Space (Aug 12, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bostrom20090812/
Nick Bostrom, chair of the IEET, offers a 20 minute overview of the posthuman possibility space, including catastrophic risks and the concept of the Singularity.
Is a Fascist Movement Emerging in the USA? (Aug 8, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/csr20090808/
Most of the show is taken up with my rant about the right-wingnuts disrupting Democratic town halls, and reading a bit of the essay “Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?” By Sara Robinson. (MP3)
Truth-telling and Plastic Surgery (Aug 8, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/scott20090807/
Kristi appeared on Seattle’s Dave Ross show to discuss her JET essay Cheating Darwin: The Genetic and Ethical Implications of Vanity and Cosmetic Plastic Surgery. (MP3)
Achieving Friendly Artificial Intelligence (Aug 5, 2009)
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/ffr0809/
Are the robots going to take over? The Matrix and Terminator movies present a nightmare world in which artificially intelligent machines pit themselves against humanity with devastating consequences. Could something like that really happen?
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IEET SPEAKER EVENTS
Andy Miah @ International Symposium of Electronic Art
Ulster, Northern Ireland
August 26-29
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miah20090826/
de Grey @ SENS4
Cambridge, UK
September 4-7
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/aubreysens4/
Natasha Vita-More, Andy Miah @ Abandon Normal Devices
Liverpool, UK
September 25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vmmiah0908/
Aubrey de Grey debates Olshansky @ Life Settlements & Longevity Summit
NYC, NY USA
September 30-1
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/degrey20091001/
Andy Miah @ Bionic Health
London, UK
October 1
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/miahbh09/
J. Hughes, Martine Rothblatt @ Transbeman Screening @ Woodstock Film Festival
Woodstock, NY USA
October 2
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/huro1009/
Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel @ Singularity Summit
New York, NY, USA
October 3-4
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/singularitysummit09/
Natasha on Cognitive Enhancement @ Inside Art and Science
Lisbon, Portugal
October 10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore200910101/
Natasha Vita-More on Human Enhancement at Ciencia Viva
Lisbon, Portugal
October 10
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore20091010/
Treder on “Humanism and Transhumanism”
Philadelphia, PA
October 25
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder2009071/
Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel @ BIL:PIL 2009 Healthcare Innovation Conference
San Diego, CA USA
October 30-31
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bilpil09/
Vita-More on “Transformative Human: radically enhancing/extending life”
Melbourne, Australia
November 26-29
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/vitamore20091126/
Nick Bostrom on “The State of the Enhancement Debate”
Philadelphia, PA USA
December 2
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/bostrom20091202/
Ben Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence
Lugano, Switzerland
March 5-8, 2010
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/agi2010/
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