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I advocate as a futurist and also as a member of the Transhumanist Party, that we never let artificial intelligence completely go on its own. I just don't see why the human species needs an artificial entity, an artificial intelligence entity, that's 10,000 times smarter than us. I just don't see why that could ever be a good thing.

Zoltan Istvan

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Zoltan Istvan
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: March 30
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I'm a fan of the simulation theory. I tend to think that most of our existence, if not all of it, is part of a hologram created by some type of other life form, or some type of other artificial intelligence. Now, it may be impossible for us to ever know that, but a bunch of recent studies in string theory physics have proved that.
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Transhumanist technology will do much for the world that the world can't really imagine yet, including overcome some of the climate issues the world is facing.
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Maybe we want to keep A.I. to the level of a 16-year-old or a 17-year-old adolescent, rather than some fully maxed-out artificial intelligence that becomes 10,000 times smarter than us in just a matter of years. Who knows what could happen? It could be a very dangerous scenario.
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My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.
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The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd.
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Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.
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It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.
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Science and technology can solve all the world's problems, and historically it has been shown to make the world better and better.
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Transhumanism literally means beyond human. It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.
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I think we're already getting to a stage where the basic artificial intelligences are discovering moral systems. I think, in many ways, moral systems are simply things that we have programmed into ourselves, either through childhood or just through genetic, ingrained ideas. So the same thing applies when you talk about machines.
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We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.
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