I have missed something about the way this FAQ was originally organized, but aren't most these actually 'transhumanist technologies'? When I hear the phrase 'transhumanist concepts' I think of 'transhuman', 'posthuman', as well as the 'singularity' and the various paths of evolution. This may be a function of the manner in which the English language is used on my side of the Atlantic--North Americans tend to use the word 'concept' to indicate a broader idea rather than a concrete manifestation. Can someone clarify this?
Thx, Kathryn Aegis
At 01:26 AM 8/5/98 +0000, Nick Bostrom wrote:
>This is the second to last section of the FAQ... There are of course
>many more "transhumanist concepts" that one could explain (e.g.
>cryonics), but the FAQ is already rather long.
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>TRANSHUMANIST CONCEPTS
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>What is nanotechnology?
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>What is superintelligence?
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>[I'm made a separate posting of my answer to this.]
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