Peter Clarke
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A Vision for Human Flourishing
The idea of human flourishing is typically only mentioned in the context of the individual. There is almost no high-level conversation explicitly focused on achieving radical, society-wide transformations designed to supercharge human flourishing. As a result, day-to-day life is stuck in a rut. Technology continues to advance, and humanist values continue to spread. But this progress rarely translates into making life more conducive to wide-scale flourishing.
We do not have to settle for the world we inherited from our parents. Just like we would not accept the transportation technology of the 1800s, we should not compulsorily accept archaic attitudes toward work, education, possessions, and leisure. The world up to this moment was not built for humanity truly to flourish. By looking to insights from philosophers, futurists, and science fiction writers, we can do better.
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“The Singularity Survival Guide: How to Get on the Good Side of Your Future Robot Overlords” (2019)
Are you prepared to meet your future robot overlords? According to futurist Ray Kurzweil, we only have until 2045 to prepare for the singularity—the moment AI achieves human-level general intelligence. That’s where The Singularity Survival Guide comes in. How will you greet this new form of higher intelligence? With a simple handshake? And what are you going to do if the AI is evil? How will you fight against it? Find the answers to these and many other questions in this survival guide—before it’s too late. "The technological singularity has officially been treated to a full-scale parody, and it’s even more comical and irreverent than it sounds." – Zoltan Istvan, Founder of the Transhumanist Party. "A timely satire, even if humor doesn’t stand a chance of saving us from the sort of superintelligence Clarke envisions." – Arif Khan, Chief Marketing Officer, SingularityNET.
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