/sci/ - Science & Math

>>2234714
>>2234787
I tend to think that it is possible in principle to build oracle machines. I think true randomness, non-locality, and steering suggest the mechanism for realizing such machines.

http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2507

>>2154325
What in the above implies submission to the collective or the group?

We have two facts of importance:
Most people live within societies.
Most people gain the greatest benefit by tolerating a minimal number of dependencies on the society they live in.

Given those two facts, transhumanism can best be realized by eliminating the dependencies on people which impede advancement. The best argument I've heard was the development of robotic surgeons to implement cybernetic or genetic augmentation.

>>2149725
Same answer I give for the question: "At the end of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' would you go with the aliens?" Yes. Without flinching, without a doubt, yes.

I eagerly await my cybernetic replacement body.

>>2118434
It's okay. I can work with that. If she's ugly on the outside and integerally empathic on the inside, she's more beautiful to me than any human female. I will improve her external and internal form so that she maybe beautiful in all things.

My only worry is that she will so love the world that she will break inside for it's inability to love her in perfect symmetry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ4L6AA-YoQ

>>2103176
It's important to note that I'm not excluding the possibility that I will befriend people I bump into during the course of my life.

I have in mind a very specific task to complete in the limited time I am alloted. I merely not interested in seeking them out and retaining them.