I have heard of him; he is almost certainly the first self-described transhumanist, although there were others who have explored the concepts of enhancement and technological singularity earlier. He was remarkably optimistic to expect post-scarcity by 2010; we will be lucky to have it by 2610, in my opinion (but OA tends to take the long view).
FM-2030's ideas about the 'Up-Wing' should be included in OA, and we could probably draw a political compass showing this tendency; the axes could be
..... Technological Transcendence
.......................^
Collectivism<-------->Individualism
.......................v
.....Technological Conservatism
and/or
..... Technological Transcendence
.............................^
Authoritarianism<-------->Freedom/Anarchy
.............................v
......Technological Conservatism
(06-24-2014, 06:45 PM)stevebowers Wrote: [ -> ]FM-2030's ideas about the 'Up-Wing' should be included in OA, and we could probably draw a political compass showing this tendency; the axes could be
..... Technological Transcendence
.......................^
Collectivism<-------->Individualism
.......................v
.....Technological Conservatism
and/or
..... Technological Transcendence
.............................^
Authoritarianism<-------->Freedom/Anarchy
.............................v
......Technological Conservatism
These two should be combined. Why just two axes when you can have more.
Absolutely. Three dimensional compasses are a little more difficult to illustrate, but that just makes the challenge interesting.
By chance I was looking around in Google Images for an example of a three-dimensional phase space as a reference for this sort of thing; here's a cube which describes the various attributes of the Kaballa Tarot symbols:
I'm beginning to see why the Sephirot is considered a useful tool for understanding the attributes of the Terragen archailects...
(06-25-2014, 02:01 AM)stevebowers Wrote: [ -> ]
![[Image: Cube%20of%20Space.png]](http://qabalatree.com/images/tutorial/Cube%20of%20Space.png)
I suggest we make a page on the Upwing political compass using a 3d cube like these. Anyways, back to FM-2030. He successfully predicted in the '70s that:
- the arms race'd de-accelerate
- the current dress-down style'd be adopted
- globalization'd occur
- telemedicine, telebanking and the like'd exist in the future
- predicted a coming "Age of Abundance" when everyone was freaked out over the "population bomb"
- 3d printers would appear by 2010
His predictions only seem to be amazing in hindsight because everyone else was preoccupied with pop future hype about nuclear war and the population bomb; he was the (almost) only one to take note of long-term trends and cutting-edge bluprints of nu tech.
What I find personally intriguing about him is his worldview, which required drastic reforming of human nature. For example:
- he believed that people would replace marriage with dating and making kids thru artificial wombs if they felt like it
- people'd replace given names w/ changing usernames
- people'd switch from families to groups of groups of adults raising kids like a daycare center
- all hierachies'd collapse to e-democracy
Of course, these changes never happened because they were too drastic for most folks to swallow.
More on FM later.
Just one last thing about that compas: if possible we should make it rotable.
But when I think about it three axes is not exactly enough so how about star diagram instead?
Something like this:
This reminds me we tend to use ahuman to describe human hostile ai, to me this suggests indifference, like asocial/antisocial. An antihuman ai would be an active threat to a nearbaseline, but an indifferent one wouldn;t be an active threat and may not or may harm the neb depending on what the two of them are doing at the time.
This quote might be helpful:
Quote:The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.
-Eliezer Yudkowski