Dr. Randal Koene: Biological Life Extension is Not Enough (Australian Singularity Summit 2012)
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Second keynote by Dr. Randal Koene at the 2012 Australian Singularity Summit. Dr. Koene presents the motivation for human technological augmentation and reasons to go beyond biological life extension.
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- 1. Biological Life-Extension is Not Enough Randal A. Koene Carboncopies.org
- 2. PERSONAL
- 3. No one wants to live longer just to live longer. Motivation informs Method.
- 4. Having an Objective, a Goal, requires that you have some notion of success.
- 5. Creating (intelligent) machines that have the capabilities we do not – is not as good as being able to experience them ourselves... Imagine... creating/playing music. Imagine... being the kayak. Imagine... perceiving the background radiation of the universe.
- 6. Is being out of the loop really your goal?
- 7. Near-term goals: Extended lives without expanded minds are in conflict with creative development.
- 8. SOCIAL
- 9. Gene survival is extremely dependent on an environment – it is unlikely to survive many changes. Worse... gene replication does not sustain that which we care most about!
- 10. Is CTGGAGTAC better than GTTGACTGAC? We are vessels for that game – but for the last 10,000 years something has been happening!
- 11. Certain future experiences are desirable, others are not – these are your perspectives, the memes you champion... Death keeps stealing our champions, our experts.
- 12. Too early to do uploading? - No! The big perspective is relevant now. We don't like myopic thinking in our politicians, let's not be myopic about world issues ourselves.
- 13. SPECIES
- 14. Life-extension in biology may increase the fragility of our species & civilization... More people? - Resources. Less births? - Fewer novel perspectives. Expansion? - Environmental limitation.
- 15. Biological life-extension within the same evolutionary niche = further specialization to the same performance “over-training” in conflict with generalization
- 16. Aubrey de Grey: Ultimately, desires “uploading”
- 17. TECHNICAL
- 18. Significant biological life-extension in incredibly difficult and beset by threats. Reality vs. popular perception.
- 19. Life-extension and Substrate-Independence are two different objectives
- 20. Developing out of a “catchment area” (S.Gildert) may demand iterations of exploration – and exploration involves risk. Hard-wired delusions and drives. What would an AGI do? Which types of AGI would exist in the long run?
- 21. “Uploading” is just one step of many – but a necessary step – for a truly advanced species
- 22. Thank You carboncopies.org randal.a.koene@carboncopies.org 22