Perilous Tech

Occasional thoughts on technology, risks, and social issues

AI with an alien

Please stick with me for a moment. I haven’t gone off the deep end or witnessed any UFOs in my backyard. If the likelihood of advanced life in the universe is so high, why don’t we have evidence of its existence? This is the Fermi paradox, and one astrophysicist has a new theory. A new …

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So, let’s talk about posthumanism for a moment. Yes, posthumanism is actually a thing, and it can sound like a rather odd movement to cheerlead. After all, we as humans aren’t done being human yet. Posthumanism’s adherents are anxiously awaiting the next stage of human evolution, homo technologicus. Yes, it’s also a real thing. I’ve …

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