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10. All these changes will fundamentally improve the subjective and social
experience of humans and our creations and successors, leading to states of individual and shared awareness possessing depth, breadth, and wonder far beyond that accessible to "legacy humans."

Prelude: A Beneficial AGI Manifesto | 13

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The Story behind the #Noosphere and the #EverythingApp #Musk #Putin

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NOTES (finally found again! :)

From 2022 posts of mine on the DeadBirdSite:

"This is a New Age eschatological prophecy rooted in #Russian #Cosmism. #VladimirVernadsky, chief theorist of the Noosphere concept, himself predicted the transition would be violent and include upheavals; which may be a self-fulfilling prophecy."

rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA

"For those new to the “Noosphere” concept,...

www.rand.orgWhose Story Wins: Rise of the Noosphere, Noopolitik, and Information-Age StatecraftNoopolitik, which favors the use of

The only pathways I see from #AI to #HumanExtinction involve humans making decisions to point AI in certain directions - & persisting in keeping it pointed in those directions through many decision gates.

IOW, the path to #extinction isn't from AI, it's from human decisions. Such as decisions fostered by #EffectiveAltruism, #TESCREAL ideologies, #corporatism, etc. Rationalizations built on self-deluded self-serving nonsense about hypothetical future beings (just warmed-over #cosmism).

One more space themed post or so, then on to socialist realism for a change.

USSR Cosmonauts, K.V. Kukulieva & B.N. Kukuliev, 1980

From what I can tell, this was made as part of a series of miniature paintings to honor Yuri #Gagarin and the cosmonauts. The artists were a wife and husband duo who were from Plaekh, a town known for their folk art and miniature paintings in this style.

Here is a pdf of the entire book: partidopirata.com.ar/~unperson