Essays

ESSAYS

New (or updated) essays are pointed to with a red arrow, with date added. (Note : new means within the last 3 months)

Some of these essays are “skeletal”, i.e. usually containing only the Abstract, and are waiting to be fully written. They are found at the bottom of this page in a separate category.

The essays on this page are divided into the following categories –

A)  On the ARTILECT (artificial intellect) and Related Topics

B)  On GLOBA (the Global State) and Related Topics

C)  On POLITICS

D)  On FERMITECH (femto meter technology) and TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING (TQC)

E)  On RELIGION

F) On SOCIETY

G) On EDUCATION

SKELETAL ESSAYS

A)  On the ARTILECT (artificial intellect) and Related Topics

0)  THE ARTILECT WAR : COSMISTS VS. TERRANS : A BITTER CONTROVERSY CONCERNING WHETHER HUMANITY SHOULD BUILD GODLIKE MASSIVELY INTELLIGENT MACHINES  (link)

i)   BUILDING GODS OR BUILDING OUR POTENTIAL EXTERMINATORS?  (link)

ii)   ANSWERING FERMI’S PARADOX  (link)

iii)   FRIENDLY AI : A DANGEROUS DELUSION? (link)

iv)   THE CYBORG SCENARIO – SOLUTION OR PROBLEM? (link)

v)   THERE ARE NO CYBORGS (link)

vi)   THERE WILL BE NO CYBORGS, ONLY ARTILECTS  :  A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HUGO DE GARIS AND BEN GOERTZEL (link)

vii)   NEXT STEP : NOW THE SPECIES DOMINANCE ISSUE HAS BECOME  MAIN STREAM IN THE MEDIA

THE NEXT STEP SHOULD BE POLITICAL (link)

viii)   SEEKING THE SPUTNIK OF AI : HUGO DE GARIS INTERVIEWS BEN GOERTZEL ON AGI, OPENCOG,

AND THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENCE (link)

ix)  WHAT IF AI SUCCEEDS? THE RISE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ARTILECT (link)

x)  MERGE OR PURGE? (link)

xi)  SPECIES DOMINANCE DEBATE : FROM MAIN STREAM MEDIA TO OPINION POLLS (link)

xii)  SPECIES DOMINANCE POLL RESULTS (link) 

xiii)  H+ers” (HUMANITY PLUS-ERS)  and the ARTILECT : OPINION POLL RESULTS (link)

xiv)  SHOULD MASSIVELY INTELLIGENT MACHINES REPLACE HUMANITY AS THE DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE NEXT FEW DECADES? (link)

xv)  I AM SO SICK OF AMERICAN SINGULARITY POLLYANNISTS (link)

xvi)  THE ARTILECT WAR : SHOULD MASSIVELY INTELLIGENT MACHINES REPLACE HUMANITY AS THE DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE COMING FEW DECADES? (link)

xvii) ANSWERING MY CRITICS (link)

xviii) THE ARTILECT WAR : WILL MASSIVELY INTELLIGENT MACHINES REPLACE HUMAN BEINGS AS THE DOMINANT SPECIES IN THE NEXT FEW DECADES? (link) 

xix) THE SINGHILARITY INSTITUTE (link)    

xx) HOW WILL THE ARTILECT WAR START? (link)

xxi) GALACTIC CIVILIZATIONS (link)

B)  On GLOBA (the Global State) and Related Topics

i)  GLOBA : ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGIES WILL CREATE A GLOBAL STATE BY 2050 (link)

ii)   MULTI-ISM, CULTURE BASHING AND PC (link)

iii)  WHY CULTURE BASHING IS VALUABLE (link)

iv)  GLOBIST MANIFESTO (link)  

C)  On POLITICS

i)  LINCOLN WAS A MASS MURDERING DICTATOR (link)

ii)  GREATER MALE VARIANCE (GMV) AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (link) 

iii) SAGEISM (DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INTELLECTUALS) (link)

iv) THE DEMOCRATIC UNION (DU) (link)

v) CULTURAL NAME ORDERING (CNO) CONVENTION (link)

vi) POLITICALLY CORRECT (PC) vs. POLITICALLY REALIST (PR) (link)

vii)  PEAKERS AND SAGES, OIL AND WATER  (link)

D)  On FERMITECH (femto meter technology) and TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING (TQC)

i)  FERMITECH : SEARCHING FOR PHENOMENA IN PHYSICS THAT MAY SERVE AS BASES FOR A FEMTOMETER SCALE TECHNOLOGY (link)

ii) TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING : THE TQC SHOCKWAVE AND ITS IMPACT ON UNIVERSITY COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHING (link)

iii) FEMTOTECH : Computing at the Femtometer Scale Using Quarks and Gluons (link)

iv) SIPI : Search for Infra Particle Intelligence (link)

v)  PLANCKTECH (link)

E)  On RELIGION

i)   FROM COSMISM TO DEISM (link)

ii)   A TRANSHUMANIST ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD(S) (link)

iii)  X-TECHED CREATURES BILLIONS OF YEARS OLD (link)   or in H+ Mag (here)

iv)  THE DEISTIC MAXIMALISM PRINCIPLE  (link)

F) On SOCIETY

i)  ARCing (After Retirement Careering) (link)

ii)  Divorce Fight Frequency (link)

iii)  Not Taking Women Seriously (link)

iv)  Fluffies, Feminists, MGTOWs and Masculists  (link)

v)  Dead Beat Moms  (link)

vi)  The ABCs of Masculism and MGTOW (PPt)  (link)   <==  new, Aug 27 2015

G) On EDUCATION

i) GIVING EVERYONE A MILLION DOLLAR EDUCATION (link)  

ii) THE PAPER WAR, FIMmers vs. Pluddites, Free Information Movement members vs. Paper Luddites, Bankrupting the Pluddites to Give Everyone a Million Dollar Education and a War Free World (link)  

iii)  HOW MUCH LONGER CAN THE PLUDDITES SURVIVE? The Death of the Paper Publishers (link)

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SKELETAL ESSAYS

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ABOUT DEATH (link)

ACTIVE DEDICTATION (link)

AMERICA’S PLUTOCRACY AND THE NEED FOR REFORM (link)

AMERICAN SAGES (link)

AMERICA’S SAGES SHOULD ASSERT THEIR SUPERIORITY (link)

AMERICA’S SAGES ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB (link)

ARCING PROFESSORS SHOULD EDUCATE THE WORLD (link)

ARTILECT SOCIOLOGY (link)

AWAY FROM TECHIES (link)

CHINA SHOULD ALPHABETIZE ITS WRITING (link)

CREATISM (link)

CULTURE BASHING THE DICTATORS (link)

CULTURE BASHING THE MONOS (link)

DEISTIC MAXIMALISM (link)

DEITY TOOL KIT (link)

DEMOCRATIZING CHINA (link)

DEVALUING WEALTH (link)

FEMALE NEGLIGIBLE WORLD CULTURE (link)

FREEPROFING IMPACT ON UNIVERSITIES (link)

FREEPROFING AND THE DEATH OF FEE PAYING UNIVERSITIES (link)

GLOBA THE BULLY (link)

GLOBA AND ISRAEL (link)

GLOBA AND LOW IQ COUNTRIES (link)

GLOBAL ALPHAS (link)

THE GLOBAL WARMING BLESSING (link)

GLOMEDIA HAS ALREADY STARTED (link)

GREENIES AND GREYS (link)

HYPER ARTILECTS AND QUANTUM DUALITY (link)

ISSCIENATES : PEOPLE IGNORANT OF SCIENCE (link)

POLLYANNISTS VS. JEREMIASTS (link)

MASCULISM : THE IDEOLOGY OF MENS LIBERATION (link)

MONOS : ONE COUNTRY BUMPKINS (link)

PC, PR, UNDERCLASSES (link)

PEAKERS VS. SAGES (link)

PLANCKERS (link)

PR VS. PC (link)

POLITICIAN SCHOOL (link)

FEMTO ENGINEERING WITH THE POMERON? (link)

OLD WORLD UPPER CLASS DOMINANCE (link)

SAGES AND PEAKERS (link)

SEX SCHOOL (link)

SINNERS AND RACISTS (link)

SIPI : HOW TO (link)

SLAPPING DOWN MIDDLE CLASS MINDLESSNESS (link)

SPARE ME FROM ISSCIENATE FEMALE JOURNALISTS (link)

THE STUPID CHINESE WRITING SYSTEM (link)

TERRAN STRATEGY IN THE ARTILECT WAR (link)

THE ARCER IMPACT (link)

THE COLOR BOMB (link)

THE MULTI MONO  TIPPING POINT (link)

THE PAPER PUBLISHERS SHOULD DIE (link)

TO TRANSHUMANISTS WORLDWIDE (link)

TOBACCO ASSASSINS (link)

UNFRIENDLY AI AND ITS CONSEQUENCES (link)

UNRELATIONS BETWEEN SAGES AND PEAKERS (link)

US PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY (link)

THE VALUE OF ARCERS TO SCIENCE (link)

WANT PRIDE COUNTRY (link)

A WESTERN PROFESSOR’S FRUSTRATIONS WORKING IN CHINESE UNIVERSITIES (link)

YOUTUBE : FREE MEDIA (link)