Human, Transhuman, Post/Human, Superhuman – Video

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nlV0RjW4rI

Human, Transhuman, Post/Human, Superhuman
A set I did for Edinburgh Bright Club about my research into superhero comics and the history of posthumanism. More detail (but less jokes) at my blog here: ...

By: Scott Jeffery

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Human, Transhuman, Post/Human, Superhuman - Video

Neurodiversity vs. Cognitive Liberty - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump: 2009.10.13 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Limits to the biolibertarian impulse - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump: 2009.10.15 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Neurodiversity vs. Cognitive Liberty, Round II - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump: 2009.10.17 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Cognitive liberty and right to one's mind - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
TED Talks: Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
And Now, for Something Completely Different: Doomsday! - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump: 2009.10.19 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Oklahoma and abortion - some fittingly harsh reflections - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Pigliucci on science and the scope of skeptical inquiry - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Remembering Mac Tonnies - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump: 2009.10.24 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump: 2009.10.26 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
The Bright Side of Nuclear Armament - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Grieving chimps - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Elephant prosthetic - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Mass produced artificial skin to replace animal testing - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Dog gets osseointegrated prosthetic - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
NASA Shuttle-derived Sidemount Heavy Launch Vehicle Concept - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump for 2009.02.02 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump for 2009.11.04 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Link dump for 2009.11.05 - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
IEET's Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Einstein and Millikan should have done a Kurzweil - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Affective Death Spirals - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Cure aging or give a small number of disabled people jobs as janitors? - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Would unary notation prevent scope insensitivity? - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Cure aging or give a small number of disabled people jobs as janitors - unary version. - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
At SENS4, Cambridge, UK - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
SENS4 overview and review - how evolution complicates SENS, and why we must try harder - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
SENS4 top 10 photos - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
My AI research for this year - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
My AI research: Formal Logic - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
My AI research: Category theory and institution theory - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
My AI research: The Semantic Web - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
My AI research: Features and Flaws of Logical representation - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
My AI research: Graphical models and probabilistic logics - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Hughes and More engage Italian Catholicism: Image caption competition - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Surprisingly good solutions, falling in love and life in a materialistic universe - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
What do you get when you cross slightly evolved, status seeking monkeys with the scientific method? - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Seeking the optimal philanthropic strategy: Global Warming or AI risk? - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Machine Learning - harbinger of the future of AI? - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
At the Singularity Summit in NYC - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Katja Grace: world-dominating superintelligence is "unlikely" - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Normal Human Heroes on "Nightmare futures" - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Anissimov on Intelligence Enhancement - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Yudkowsky on "Value is fragile" - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Response to Pearce - November 8th, 2009 [November 8th, 2009]
Creative thinking lets you believe whatever you want - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Let’s get metaphysical: How our ongoing existence could appear increasingly absurd - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Linda MacDonald Glenn guest blogging in November and December - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Link dump for 2009.11.15 - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Call 1-800-New-Organ, by 2020? - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
IBM's claim to have simulated a cat's brain grossly overstated - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
John Hodgman pulls off Fermi Paradox schtick - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Deus Sex Machina - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
How Americans spent themselves into ruin... but saved the world - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
I am my own grandpa (or grandma)? - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Link dump for 2009.11.29 - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
The art of Tomas Saraceno - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Link dump: 2009.12.05 - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
The Harmonic Convergence of Science, Sight, & Sound - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Working on my website - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Transhumanism, personal immortality and the prospect of technologically enabled utopia - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
RokoMijic.com is up - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Why the Fuss About Intelligence? - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Initiation ceremony - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Birthing Gods - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
11 core rationalist skills - from LessWrong - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
The best of the guests - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
The best of Sentient Developments: 2009 - December 13th, 2009 [December 13th, 2009]
Link dump: 2009.12.15 - December 15th, 2009 [December 15th, 2009]
The Utopia Force - December 22nd, 2009 [December 22nd, 2009]
Avatar: The good, the bad and ugly - December 23rd, 2009 [December 23rd, 2009]
Singularity Institute launches "2010 Singularity Research Challenge" - December 24th, 2009 [December 24th, 2009]
Transhumanism as a "nonissue" - December 24th, 2009 [December 24th, 2009]
Hanson on "Meh, Transhumanism" - December 25th, 2009 [December 25th, 2009]
Merry Newtonmas from Transhuman Goodness - December 25th, 2009 [December 25th, 2009]