/sci/ - Science & Math

Transhumanism ftw! Going into hybrid holistic medicines and posthuman concepts we can make it to the better future.

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if we are going to introduce AI. We surely need to also introduce Transhumanism along with posthumanism with a touch of Quantum mechanics.

Thinking about dropping out of college.

I'm at my third year of a top 20 college majoring in electrical engineering with a 3.8 GPA despite smoking weed every day (although I've stopped recently), playing vidya, and browsing 4chan. But I'm noticing something lately, that my most difficult year and a half ahead of me just may not even be worth it - that my degree will be obsolete before I even graduate (think khan academy but more advanced). The world is changing, social networking is creating sudden solidarity, and everything is becoming electronic. Sitting through class being lectured by a teacher seems like it will be archaic within 2 years and replaced by online learning through superior software and teaching techniques. Not only that, but technology is advancing at such a rate that things like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzFpg271sm8 will be a reality before we know it. The potential implications of the scientific advancements happening now are unimaginable and will lead into transhumanism (or something similar) very rapidly.

I'd imagine those of you on this forum are more in touch with what's going on, and I'm wondering what you think about all this.

Ray Kurzweil often relates uploading one's mind to a computer to immortality. Why? You're going to die anyway... There will just be another consciousness similar to yours that will outlive your own brain. Immortality, or the perpetuation of a single consciousness, can only be achieved by augmenting the human body.

Hey sci.

Anyone find anything 'wrong' or 'strange' here?

Otherwise I really find this interesting. Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj_i7YqDwJA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlmrHMBW36w&NR=1

bro/sci/'s , do you think we are headed towards technological singularity? i certainly think the pace of technological advancement is increasing (outside of low yield fabs) but will it reach a singularity point? or slow down once we reach the limits of our universe