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Tag Archives: LonFut
Preparing for the surge
Dear Futurists, 1.) Four meetups in the calendar After a period with only a few meetups taking place, we can now look forward to a mini-surge of activity over the next few weeks. The London Futurists calendar currently lists four … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Hardy, AGI, Future Surge, Hugh Shields, Jeffrey Funk, London Futurists, London Futurists Podcast, LonFut, Michael Rogers, Steve Keen
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Bumper news catch-up
Dear Futurists, There’s lots of big news to share. Indeed, there’s so much big news pending that I’m going to break it up into a number of separate newsletters over the next few weeks. This time around, I’ll start with … Continue reading
Leverage points, misunderstandings, fascinations, and missed opportunities
Dear Futurists, After a break of several weeks (more about that below), here are a few news items that may interest you – starting with our event tomorrow (Saturday 23rd July). 1.) Artificial Intelligence and You Our guest tomorrow is … Continue reading
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Tagged Aubrey de Grey, London Futurists, LonFut, Newspeak House, Peter Scott, SENS, The Singularity Principles
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Key questions and key answers
Dear Futurists, Two of the most important questions facing all of us just now are: How can we learn new skills? How can we pass on to others the skills that we know? What prevents us learning new skills is … Continue reading
Better videos for a better future
Dear Futurists, We’re all influenced by the images, narratives, and videos we encounter. Sometimes we’re consciously aware of the influence, but there’s often an “under the radar” connection that reprograms us subconsciously. In particular, when we encounter specific images, narratives, … Continue reading
Futurist feedback – “fun, frightening and fruitful”
Dear Futurists, 1.) More feedback on ‘Future Superhuman’ More feedback for the book Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century, has steadily been accumulating since the London Futurists webinar with the same name as the book was first … Continue reading
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Tagged Elise Bohan, Future Superhuman, London Futurists, LonFut, Tony Czarnecki, YouTube
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Controversies over “control”
Dear Futurists, I’ve received varying feedback about the title of the event we’re holding tomorrow. Some of you like the title: “How might we control AI, before AI controls us?” You accept the need to apply restrictions to AI. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Joe Murray, London Futurists, LonFut, Tony Czarnecki, Tracey Follows
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Our make-or-break century
Dear Futurists, “Staying as we are” isn’t a viable option for us humans in the remainder of this century. Nor is there an option to somehow revert to an imagined earlier, simpler form of human civilisation. Fast-changing technology and global … Continue reading
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Tagged Aligned AI, Elise Bohan, London Futurists, LonFut, Stuart Armstrong, Sustensis, The Vital Syllabus, Tony Czarnecki, Transhumanism
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The noise and the signal
Dear Futurists, Never in human history has there been so much noise. I’m referring, not to auditory bangs and crashes, but to informational noise – to the flurry of ideas that can saturate our minds and leave us psychologically deafened. … Continue reading
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Tagged Fast Future, London Futurists, LonFut, Steve Buss, The Vital Syllabus, Vince Giuliano, younging
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