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The Future of Humanity Lies Among the Stars 🚀🌌
Space exploration is shaping our future—from colonizing Mars to mining asteroids and advancing AI, robotics, and energy tech. But beyond innovation, it offers a new perspective—one where Earth’s borders fade, and unity becomes essential.

Will we become a multi-planetary species in our lifetime? 🌍➡️🪐

🤖 Half man, half machine—The future is here.

Neuralink just made history by implanting a computer chip in a human brain for the first time.
The patient, paralyzed after a car accident, is now playing chess using only his mind. 😳

Elon Musk believes this brain-machine interface is how humans can merge with AI and keep up with its rapid evolution.
💡 Revolutionary or terrifying? Is this the next step in human evolution?

1er essai de la bande annonce du prochain film de l’Association : youtu.be/vWXkKD2UlJI?si=hGf0o4

Date de sortie : Début 2025, en exclusivité sur demainlhomme.org

@demainlhomme 👍 @mastodon.social

Témoignage d'un jeune contacté dans les années 1970. L'intégralité de ce témoignage insolite sera mis en ligne sur : demainlhomme.org

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@benroyce @joaocosta Yes, that's the madness—the differences in mindsets and common sense. Sometimes, I believe we are still savages. Comparing humans to primitive mammals doesn't quite fit, as mammals aren't so inventive when it comes to torture. We have a long way to go unless AI becomes the more "humane" species, even though the word "humane" itself is bizarre. Ultimately, it might all come down to resources, and AI wouldn't be any different. #Philosophy #HumanNature #AI #Ethics #FutureOfHumanity

Oxford University has closed the Future of Humanity Institute founded by Nick Bostrom:

futureofhumanityinstitute.org/

Since its funders included Elon Musk, the European Research Council and Leverhulme Trust, it wouldn't be a surprise if someone gave them the money to set up something similar elsewhere - if they haven't already. In fact they've already issued their own 'Final Report' detailing what would be needed to start another FHI:

forum.effectivealtruism.org/po

Things they did wrong, apparently: 'We did not invest enough in university politics and sociality to form a long-term stable relationship with our faculty.'

Things they did right, at least in their own eyes: 'Short-term renewable contracts. Since firing people is basically impossible within the University, only by offering short-term contracts (two or three years) was it possible to get rid of people who turned out not to be great fit.'

#bostrom #futureofhumanity
#longtermism #ai #humanity #humanities #philosophy

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#NickBostrom’s #FutureOfHumanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’

The closure of Bostrom’s center is a further blow to the #EffectiveAltruism and #Longtermism movements that the philosopher has spent decades championing, which in recent years have become mired in scandals related to #racism, #SexualHarassment and #FinancialFraud.

#Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopherBy Nick Robins-Early

How to start a revolution in the modern world.

Direct Action

How are you and your buddies armed with AKs or AR-15s planning on going up against an army brigade backed up by armoured vehicles, tanks, artillery and close air support?
How are you going to organise in an age of constant and pervasive surveillance or communication?
You won't last more than a few weeks of planning before your front door gets kicked in at 2am.

Mass Mobilization

Just get a few million people marching on Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Moscow, Jeddah, Tokyo, Beijing etc and demand that the governments of the world step aside. You will be meeting the army brigade again. This time you wont even be armed to let you have the satisfaction of shooting back for the 5 seconds before you are killed.

Attacks on infrastructure.

Blow up power lines, rail lines, roads, internet hubs and datacentres. Where are you getting all that high explosive? How are you organising? Sooner or later there will be guys with guns after you even if you overcome the first two obstacles. They will kill you.
It took a hell of a lot of outside support to keep the various resistance groups in occupied Europe fighting in WW2. Its going to be just you and maybe half a dozen mates. No one is going to help you.

Democracy

Its nice to think that we can vote our way out of this shitty mess. Voting got us in the shitty mess.

Be like Karl Marx and write books that inspire world wide revolution.

Fucking hurry up then.

Last week I gave a talk for the Koning Willem I Stichting in Amsterdam in the presence of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands.

The 'Winnaarsdiner' brought together the winners of the previous editions of the Koning Willem I Award for Dutch entrepreneurship. I talked about our future in outer space and how this will radically reshape human civilization.

The call for the 2024 awards edition is now open: kw1prijs.nl/inschrijven