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Whether the future is better or worse will depend on our actions. Like Girard, Thiel, believes that Western political philosophy cannot cope with global violence.
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
Once brain porting technology has been refined and fully developed, will this enable us to live forever? The answer depends on what we mean by living and dying. However, if we are diligent in maintaining our mind file, keeping current backups, and porting to current formats and mediums, then a form of immortality can be attained, at least for softw... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
People have talked about zombie Reaganism, but in this scenario a new coalition would be finally popping into view. And it’s a totally different carving of the political spectrum than the Reagan era. Rather than nationalists and capitalists (the right) against internationalists and socialists (the left), it’s internationalists and capitalists (left
... See moreBalaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Along these lines, one recalls, too, Arendt’s warning in the prologue to The Human Condition: “The future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it w... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Paradox of Control
De surcroît, alors que la guerre nucléaire et le changement climatique menacent uniquement la survie physique de l’humanité, des technologies de rupture pourraient changer la nature même de l’humanité et sont donc enchevêtrées avec les croyances éthiques et religieuses les plus profondes des êtres humains.
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
by cheating death a decade at a time. According