Nii nimetatu tulnukad;paraleeluniversumid ja teleportatsioon see kõik on üks tervik mida enamus meist praeguses eluetapis kogeda ei suuda kuid aina rohkem ja rohkem inimesi on maailmas selleks juba võimelised. Selleks peame ennast ja enda hingelist seisundit ravima, milleks praegu on väga hea võimalus, kuna ka planeedi võngete sagedus suureneb ja meil on palju suurem võimalus läheneda kõigele sellele ja seda mõista. Kosmos on kindlasti imeline ja ka minu unistus on seal viibida ja ka teiste maailmadega suhelda.

2010s might as well be called “The Crazy Years” after a term coined by Robert Heinlein – a period of turbulent, conflicted times when, while glimmers of hope appeared on multiple fronts of technological advancement, society and culture have clearly declined due to the rise of incivility, tribalism, authoritarianism, identity politics, and mass breakdowns of sanity. https://transpire.me/2020/01/27/transhumanist-new-decade-resolutions/

The Lifeboat Foundation is looking to hire an HQ Supervisor. This individual will be trained by our president in Reno, Nevada USA and will be in charge of everything from financial paperwork to keeping our HQ (headquarters) clean. The two main qualities that are being looked for are: 1) follow through 2) and a strong interest in “Safeguarding Humanity”. Because the Lifeboat Foundation is looking for a one-of-a-kind person, we are willing to pay to have someone flown in from any country and to help with any visa paperwork. https://lifeboat.com/ex/hq.supervisor

IN THIS EPISODE 19th episode of the Space Citizen News Podcast. https://www.spacecitizennews.com/scn019-podcast-episode-19/ UNOOSA World Space Forum interview with AMP Cheryl Gallagher who was Asgardia’s Representative, Tallinn 3 day Parliamentary Sitting with Executive Congress, changes to the Chairmanships of 4 Committees, 5 items voted by Parliament and result of the votes, interview with AMP David Basseri, AMP Ricky Sickles, AMP Cheryl Gallagher on Tallinn Congress, latest stats and events for Asgardia.

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The Space Nation is proud to announce Asgardia’s 6th Parliamentary Session in Tallinn November 23-25, 2019, where AMPs are all meeting in person for the second time! This year’s sitting will focus on discussing an economic system that suits the needs of a digital Space Nation. AMPs will vote on the Asgardian Citizens’ Bill of Rights, State and Private Civil Service Act, debate on the National Bank and National Currency Act, and the Digital Space Library proposal. For the first time, Asgardia’s Parliament, Government and Mayors will all participate in the session together.

The Transhumanist Party is holding a primary to nominate their candidate for the 2020 US Presidential race. Last day to register to vote is today! However, membership is open to international affiliates, as well. Read about the candidates here: http://transhumanist-party.org/candidate-profiles/ Join to vote before the end of today or to just become a member: http://transhumanist-party.org/membership/

This article originally posted to my Medium profile: https://medium.com/predict/fully-automated-luxury-communism-is-our-future-c8abd1371d1 I have been planning to write on this topic, but a recently featured article in OneZero inspired me to kick it off now. This is my rebuttal. In his analysis of the book Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani, Robin Whitlock wrote an article that he felt outlined the reasons why Bastani is incorrect in his belief that one day (perhaps sooner than we may realize), the world will transition to a one-world, communist-style form of government. I haven’t read Bastani’s book, but, I have been an avid supporter of this concept for nearly a decade after watching the movie Zeitgiest: Moving Forward. Over the years, I have also engaged in conversations about this topic with literally thousands of people, and most of them repeat the same fallacies over and over in their denial that such a thing could ever possibly happen. I have found that many people have several cognitive biases that hinder their ability to look forward into the future and see what it could potentially look like. Often, they believe it will look and behave very similarly (if not worse) than what we have today, maybe just with a few more gadgets to play with. In fact, most people are completely unaware of their own biases, let alone that there are 175 known biases that influence our rationale. Of course, the most obvious is the negative connotation that the word “communism" brings to mind. Immediately, the thought of walking skeletons forced into labor camps spurs a knee-jerk reaction to immediately stop listening to any argument that can even remotely be deemed “pro-communist". But, just to touch on some of the other common biases that influence this conversation (and most people’s daily lives) are: Declinism- when we remember the past as better than it was, while simultaneously believing the future will be worse than it likely will be. Just-World- Many of us who live in developed nations like to believe the world is a just place. It makes us feel secure. To think that somewhere in the world someone is dying of hunger, can overwhelm us with guilt if we think about it while we enjoy an expensive meal at a nice restaurant. So, we chase away the guilt by reminding ourselves that we work hard and we’re good people, so we deserve this nice meal. Anyone who doesn’t have access to such things is just not trying hard enough, so they get what they deserve. Of course, this bias can cloud our judgment of other people and their situations. It helps to cloak the madness of the system we have built. It’s also a bias that politicians tend to exploit to get you to vote for them, and one that makes people believe the world in the future will be pretty much the same place it is today. Belief & Confirmation Bias: Our beliefs shape our perception. After all, the human condition requires we believe in something for it to be real. When one believes in something, they will find or fabricate as much evidence as necessary to support that belief; likewise for something one does not believe in. Our brains automatically default to our belief structures when analyzing nearly any subject. And, it can sometimes be difficult to examine the evidence with an open mind that may challenge those beliefs. Dunning-Kruger: The more you know, the less confident you are. Fools rush in without understanding. The wise understand how little they know and pause for consideration. Framing: It is amazing what a frame can do for a portrait or painting. The right frame really makes the piece pop and increase the appreciation of those beholding the piece of art. The same goes for our brains. Major media, consumer data companies, and marketers understand how their piece of art is framed MATTERS. A LOT. It is often seen that they will frame things in different ways for different consumer tastes and preferences. It is an extremely easy way to manipulate the masses. And, once one recognizes this bias, one begins to see the frames around everything. Familiarity: Our comfort zone. Whether in the physical sense or the literal, most of us have a pretty small comfort zone surrounding every aspect of our lives. If something encroaches without permission, or we are challenged to venture outside of our zones, it can be stressful and uncomfortable. While the huge world outside of our zones can be harsh and unforgiving, it can also hold the key to amazing new discoveries in all areas of life. Self-Attribution: A common example of this is when working in a group, you feel like you’re doing more than everyone else. The interesting thing about this is: if you ask 10 people in a group if they feel like they’re doing more than others, you’ll likely get 9 responses that support their belief they are working harder than everyone else. Sunk-cost: You’ve invested a lot of time, effort, and money into a project (or your career). But, it’s not going as you had hoped. It’s difficult to walk away from something that is not serving its intended purpose. Anchoring: This is when you’re so focused on one goal, that you miss out on opportunities to have a better outcome because you refuse to deviate from the initial goal. Survival: The celebs (and capitalists) make it all look so easy. Like anyone can go to Hollywood and become a huge star. But, what we often don’t hear about are all the failed talent who just didn’t get the right break into the industry. If one does not succeed, one is simply failing at trying hard enough (similar to the Just-World bias). There are many others that fit into this conversation. The ambiguity effect (avoiding options where the outcome is unknown), anthropocentric thinking or anthropomorphism (common in discussions about AI), attentional bias (marketing and constantly being told capitalism is the best way), and so on. But, even FALC supporters are sometimes clouded by their own biases. In addition to the few of the above, automation bias (excessively relying on automated systems which can give erroneous information that overrides correct decisions) is one. Berkson’s Paradox ( The tendency to misinterpret statistical experiments involving conditional probabilities) is another. And, especially the Bias Blind Spot (the tendency to recognize bias more in others, less in oneself). So, regardless of these biases on both sides of the conversation, people want to see hard facts and plausible ideas about how this future may come to fruition or why it will not. The truth is: NONE of us know for sure. But, there are some things that should be considered before completely shutting the door on the idea of humanity living in a Fully Automated Luxury Communist structure in the future. So, back to the original article I am rebutting by Mr. Whitlock. I seriously doubt he read the book, though that is simply an assumption. But, this assumption stems from the fact that many of his rebuttals to the concept are deeply entrenched in a capitalist mindset, disregarding the very essence of the book. Assumption One For instance, many of the government labor statistics he quotes are based on a flawed system of tracking that the US is notorious for. He also claims that automation is a “long way off and not necessarily replacing jobs”. This is also a flawed analysis due to Moore’s law. But, Moore’s law aside — some even believe Moore’s law is dead or evolving— he goes on to state that according to McKinsey digital who stated two years ago that less than 5% of jobs are able to be automated over the next decade. That is a seemingly naive assumption compared to the breakthroughs we have seen in the past two years from companies like Boston Dynamics and their amazing robots. But, even in 2012, before the exponential growth he have witnessed over the past 7 years, automation of jobs was projected to be staggeringly high: So, now we get into the cost of all this automation. Sure, it is a prohibitive factor for many, especially small businesses. For now, that is. In accordance with Moore’s law, as things become smaller and more advanced, though, the prices tend to drop. The more assistance provided to small businesses (whether by government supplementation or not), the faster these technologies will drop in price and advance. Then, by quoting articles that are years old (2014 & 2017), the argument is made that, for instance, self-driving cars are facing major logistical and regulatory issues. Again, without considering the major advancements made recently. In fact, he very conspicuously left out Tesla in this analysis. Or, for that matter, the drone taxis that started in Dubai in 2017, and are now being adopted and accelerated by Uber and Boeing. So, by assuming that automation is not going to replace most jobs anytime soon, we are really turning a blind-eye on the advancements going on around the world. Assumption Two Moving on to asteroid-mining. Mr. Whitlock used an article from 2012 (nearly a decade old) to prove the point that we were a decade away from identifying suitable asteroids to mine. In 2015, Obama signed a law into effect called “Space Law” allowing private companies to mine asteroids. And, the example used — Planetary Resources — struggling only to be acquired by Consensys, Inc. (a blockchain company) is an extremely poor (on purpose?) example, considering that companies like (to name only a few) Deep Space Industries, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Bigelow Aerospace, and even The Blue Origin aerospace company owned by Jeff Bezos are going all-in on this concept. In the article, he also tries to point out that these ventures being profitable are the highest concern. That is, again, a false assumption. While it is true that funding needs to happen to make these a reality, one must also realize that funding, in itself, is a fallacy. By this, I mean: The idea of fiat currency having any sort of value is false. It can be created out of thin air. It is either simply a piece of paper or a number on a computer monitor. Nearly the entire world uses fiat currency. Nor is the number of materials hidden in the asteroids “speculative, at best”. That is his own assumption, without any real-time understanding of how the above-mentioned companies conduct research to identify lucrative asteroids. As noted in the original article, Mars One’s for-profit business went bankrupt (though the non-profit side is still running). That is a sign that for-profit in this sector will struggle. Perhaps an even bigger signal that non-profit will eventually win in this sector. As an added point of interest, space is a HUGE business and destined only to grow: The point is not profit. The point is to succeed at nearly any cost. Assumption Three Aside from the fact that the vast majority of people are essentially wage-slaves who toil away at mind-numbing tasks to make their bosses a little richer, this entire area completely leaves out the concept of AI and quantum computing. Mr. Whitlock is stuck in his own biases that only a company can do what is being talked about and that companies can only be run by humans. While this is certainly the case today, the advent of AI is not to be scoffed at. In fact, the entire premise of arguments against a system like FALC is akin to the people who 20 years ago scoffed at the idea of having hand-held computers that we know as smartphones. It is an archaic way of thinking… Fearful, even. The truth is: We are on the precipice of technological upheaval never before witnessed by humanity. We better get our heads right to understand the challenges we will face and how to make life better for all humans as a consequence of technology. Otherwise, we will find ourselves in dystopian lives as described by some of the dystopian authors people love to quote. This concept is not some glorified hippie utopia (utopia is highly subjective, btw) of rainbows and lollipops all day. Stop fooling yourselves and diminishing the world we live in and are about to arrive in. This is the reality we face. When people are displaced from employment and when precious metals & minerals are no longer rare, it will not happen suddenly and it will not be a hundred years away. Try the next 10–30 years, MAXIMUM, for us to really start seeing these effects. Sure, you and I may not be around to see it, but my kids will be. We need to expand our highly myopic understanding of what is in front of us. If you don’t, others will, and it will be you who is left in the dust. DISRUPT, OR BE DISRUPTED. That is the motto of the 21st-century. Finally, yes, the future may be run by corporate empires. That is a scary prospect. In the near future, it may be necessary to eliminate the idea of corporations. All other details aside, the idea of competition is only a hindrance to the advancement of these technologies. Why split the resources (money, labor, etc.) between so many different companies hoping for a profit for a few individuals? In many ways, this is a ridiculous notion. It means fewer resources for each company and wasted time between advancements. This problem is becoming more and more obvious as technology advances. And, all of this is in addition to the people who are working to cure aging, upload minds into the cloud, and make us into something else to redefine what it means to be human like the Transhumanist movement. If one doesn’t take all of these considerations into account when thinking about the future, they are doing themselves and the future a disservice. Because even though you may stick your head in the sand to avoid seeing it, millions of others are working toward this future whether they realize it or not. There is so much more I could add to this, but then I would need to write a book… A book explaining Fully Automated Luxury Communism…

This story originally appeared on my Medium profile: https://medium.com/predict/transhumanism-can-be-the-ultimate-egalitarianism-or-the-ultimate-elitism-5bab54661a06 There is something to fit every person, personality, and philosophy. But, who gets access and who doesn’t? The term transhuman can seem quite ambiguous. And, in some sense, it is. It encompasses a wide range of human augmentations and enhancements: From mind-uploading into an android, digital immortality in the cloud, gene-editing to protect against disease and stop aging, augmentation to enhance performance in every sense of the word, cryonic suspension after death, all the way to simply replacing failing physiological systems, and literally everything in between or beyond. There is no known limit to what can potentially be done to evolve humans beyond the current biological limitations. Because of the limitless possibilities, it is important that we begin talking about what this means for humanity and the future of governance. There are many organizations who recognize the need for taking steps now to ensure people have the autonomy to decide if they want augmentations or not. Or, to decide how to take care of their future as these technologies become more common. One of these organizations is the United States Transhumanist Party. It was formed in 2014 by Zoltan Istvan when he ran for President during the 2016 elections. His vision was to bring the discussion about the future of human augmentation to the mainstream and dispell many of the fears that surround it. An organization of dedicated members (of which, I am one) is working hard to achieve this goal. Since its founding, it has grown into a worldwide movement for those who recognize that the technology we once believed was only science fiction is now on the brink of becoming reality. Our old ways of governing society are no longer good enough. There must be a change in the thought process. Change? But, Why? You may question why we should overhaul the political framework that has seemingly served us so well in the past. The answer to that is fairly straightforward: This is unlike any other time in human history. We have had many political systems throughout human history, and they always evolve. The idea of keeping things as they are now won’t work in an age where technological innovation is going to profoundly change humanity more than ever before. We could compare it to the industrial revolution, but I contend that this comparison is severely lacking in grasping the entirety of the situation. There are some people who advocate for putting a sentient AI in place of a president and some who argue the opposite. Some argue that once we break the barrier to reversing/slowing down/stopping aging, term limits will need to be imposed on certain governmental positions that currently have none. Imagine an immortal as a SCOTUS. What ramifications could this have? Governance AND Economy are On-The-Table I cannot stress hard enough how close we are to bringing about a technological age that seems highly far-fetched to those who are outside of the sphere of techno-optimism. We only see a small portion of it right now, but it increasingly becoming part of our daily lives? Automation. With every small step — such as autonomous vehicles, and stores where you don’t even scan your items, you just pick them up and walk out of the store — we exponentially increase the power of these technologies to drastically change our future. And, it’s not just robots that put the monetary system as we know it at risk of collapse. What happens when Neuralink and similar tech becomes more widely available, and you are forced to compete with someone who now has augmented cognitive faculties? Do you believe they deserve to earn more money because they provide a greater service? If they can do the jobs of 3 people, where does that leave you? Would you augment yourself to compete? Do you believe you have a right to be able to compete if you so desire? Elon Musk's Neuralink implant will "merge" humans with AI Tesla founder Elon Musk has launched tech startup Neuralink to build implants that connect human brains with computer… www.dezeen.com How about the “designer babies” that will soon be arriving who are genetically pre-dispositioned to have higher intelligence capabilities? How does a normal person compete with them in terms of employment qualifications? But, there is a caveat to this scenario. And, that is the more augmentation and automation that occurs, the fewer jobs are available. What then? Can’t Stop the Tsunami This and more is inevitable and within a relatively very short timeframe. You may think you won’t be alive to see most of these advancements, but you could be quite wrong on that. You also may believe that it won’t affect you very much while you are alive. Are you willing to take that chance? The tsunami is coming and it is virtually impossible to stop. All we can do is to ensure we fortify our communities and infrastructure to minimize the potential damage such a tsunami can cause. And, that fortification begins with you recognizing the weak points, then working to improve them. So, What Really Demands My Consideration? The US Transhumanist Party has laid out a detailed framework for important considerations moving forward. Many of the issues that we need to bring into the open include, but are not limited to: • Individual privacy and liberty over how to apply technology to one’s personal life. • Tolerance and inclusivity of all individuals of all races, genders, classes, religions, creeds, national origins, and other characteristics. • Support of most technologies but opposition to certain detrimental technologies (e.g., weapons of mass destruction, privacy-infringing technologies, engineering of new pathogens). • Opposition to nuclear weapons, support of complete nuclear disarmament, even if unilateral. • Support for research on the eradication of disease. • Morphological freedom. • Support of all values and efforts toward cultivation of science, technology, reason. • Support of all emerging technologies that improve the human condition, including: ° Autonomous vehicles ° Electric vehicles ° Economical solar power ° Safe nuclear power ° Hydroelectricity ° Geothermal power ° Applications for the sharing of durable goods ° Artificial intelligence ° Biotechnology ° Nanotechnology ° Robotics ° Rapid transit ° 3D printing ° Vertical farming ° Electronic devices to detect and respond to trauma ° Beneficial genetic modification of plants, animals, and human beings • Ending the drug war. • Reforming the prison system to reduce the incarcerated population. • Universal Basic Income (UBI) — not conditional on life circumstances, occupations, other income, or wealth. • Reasonable measures to fund space travel. • Using science and technology to eliminate disabilities. • Ending the two-party duopoly. • Life extension / anti-aging. • Removal of barriers to medical research and deployment of treatments. • Reducing the national debt. • Alternative sources of energy and technological implementations. • Increasing the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). • Support for political, economic, and cultural experimentation — e.g., seasteads and micronations. • Children’s rights proportional to their rational faculties. • Animal welfare (but not “animal liberation”). • Opposition to intolerant, rights-violating, anti-technological, and compulsion-imposing doctrines be they religious or secular.

Story originally appeared on my Medium profile: https://medium.com/predict/move-over-digital-dna-here-come-metabolomes-1c3f8f4e611c Digital data storage innovations are moving so quickly, it’s becoming harder and harder to keep up! Stock photo of DNA run through Deep Dream Generator Soon, 463 Exabytes of Data will be Produced Daily And, we need to store it all, apparently. If you’re unfamiliar with how much an exabyte is, picture it this way: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1 quintillion) bytes or fills about 2,000 cabinets in a 4-story data center the size of a city block. Now, imagine we would need 463 of these buildings to be filled every single day. Entire cities of data centers would need to be built to house data using our current storage methods. It is kinda hard to even fathom this amount of information and it is simply unfeasible to continue storing data the way we do now. Digital DNA vs. Metabolomes I’ve already written a few articles about Digital DNA and explored the ideas of devising a way to encode worldly knowledge as instincts into humans. Or, perhaps a little far-fetched, exploring the potential to inject Digital DNA with top secret information into dignitaries for safe-keeping. The fact of the matter is, we are simply producing more data than our current methods of storage can handle. We need to find better solutions and fast. Now, just a few days ago researchers published findings that are taking digital storage possibilities one step further by identifying a way to add digital data onto artificial metabolomes. According to Wikipedia, a metabolome is: The complete set of small-molecule chemicals found within a biological sample. The biological sample can be a cell, a cellular organelle, an organ, a tissue, a tissue extract, a biofluid or an entire organism. Organisms (like humans, for example) use metabolomes to regulate our metabolisms. It’s pretty easy to understand that the metabolomes transmit information. But, researchers said that information can be harder to generalize and quantify. They wanted to prove that metabolomes could precisely encode digital data. This is big news packed into a tiny little package. Why? Because depending on the situation and types of molecules, the concoction can store more data than DNA. What’s even more interesting is the fact that metabolites can interact with one another and form new compounds. So, these compounds not only store the data, but they can also manipulate it and perform computations within metabolite mixtures. So, How Do They Do It? The images below are of a cat (17 kilobytes) and an ibex (6 kilobytes) in size. Image of a cat. (a) (i) A 17,424-bit image written into 1452 mixtures from a 12-metabolite subset of the library. (ii) The image recovered using one discriminating mass per metabolite. (iii) The image recovered using a regression combining 16 peaks per molecule. Credit: Brown, retrieved from PLOS ONE. Image of an ibex. These mixtures encoded the 6142-bit image shown in (f). In (g), we recover the image with a 2.5σ decision threshold, producing approximately 2% cumulative read/write error. Credit: Brown, retrieved from PLOS ONE. The presence or absence of one metabolite in one spot encodes one bit (a 0 or a 1) of information. A few of the metabolites they used may sound familiar: Glutamine Phenylalanine Tryptophan Sorbitol Thiamine Riboflavin Using these and a wide array of other essential building blocks of human (and animal) life, researchers created libraries of six and 12 metabolites. This means each mixture could encode either six or 12 bits. Then, they adjusted the mixture of the metabolites in thousands of different combinations, all done with a liquid-handling robot. The nanoliter-sized droplets were then allowed to dry. Once the tiny spots were dry, it left behind the metabolites arranged in a very specific manner. Using a mass spectrometer microscope, researchers could read back the position of the metabolites and decode the data. Think of it as a really small paint-by-numbers canvas. After some fine-tuning in the arrangement of the metabolites, they could adjust the quality of the image when it was retrieved. Notice the grains in the images. Of course, these images are tiny. This alone would not put a dent in the amount of data we need to store. But, it is a solid proof-of-concept say the researchers, and there are thousands of metabolites that can be used. This means there is a lot of room for scaling-up the data that can be stored. A Fatal Flaw or Feature? However, one potential drawback is that some metabolites interact with one another which may result in loss or corruption of the data. We don’t know yet if it is a fatal bug in the system or one that could possibly become a feature. As mentioned before, it may help us manipulate the data in unimaginable ways, such as allowing for the metabolites to perform their own computations. In my mind, this lends value to the prospect of being able to encode knowledge into our minds and bodies that allow us to have the world’s knowledge as literally part of our being. Instinctually. Maybe instead of connecting devices to our brains, we could simply swallow a pill, or sprinkle a dash of metabolite mixtures onto our salad to gain entire encyclopedias of knowledge. Seeing advancements like this tends to make one get lost in the realm of possibility, doesn’t it?