Transhumanism
Quotes & Thinkers in Transhumanism
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"By and large, the answer to the question "How do large institutions survive?" is "They don't!" The vast majority of large modern-day institutions — some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization — simply fail to exist in the first place."
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🇺🇸FM-2030
Sports
1930–2000
"I am a 21st Century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future."
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Julian Huxley
Science
atheism
1887–1975
"The New Divinity" from Essays of a Humanist"
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🇺🇸Eliezer Yudkowsky
Literature
effective altruism
b. 1979
"There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model."
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"Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances."
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, b. 1979View →
"Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use."
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, b. 1979View →
"There are no surprising facts, only models that are surprised by facts; and if a model is surprised by the facts, it is no credit to that model."
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, b. 1979View →
"Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct."
— Julian Huxley, b. 1887View →
"Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit."
— Eliezer Yudkowsky, b. 1979View →