Transhumanism

TagLast edit: 3 Oct 2020 2:37 UTC by Ruby

Transhumanism is the belief or movement in favour of human enhancement, especially beyond current human limitations and with advanced technology such as AI, cognitive enhancement, and life extension.

References

Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism by Eliezer Yudkowsky
A TED talk by transhumanist Nick Bostrom on humanity’s biggest problems
The Transhumanist FAQ (PDF) by Nick Bostrom (HTML version)
Transhumanist Values by Nick Bostrom
A History of Transhumanist Thought (PDF) by Nick Bostrom
Seven Definitions of Transhumanism by Michael Anissimov
PostHuman: An Introduction to Transhumanism (video)

External links

H+Pedia, the transhumanist wiki

“Far Coordination”

DragonGod23 Nov 2022 17:14 UTC

6 points

17 comments9 min readLW link

Why I no longer identify as transhumanist

Kaj_Sotala3 Feb 2024 12:00 UTC

55 points

33 comments3 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Transhumanists Don’t Need Special Dispositions

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Dec 2018 22:24 UTC

98 points

18 comments5 min readLW link

Confessions of a Transhumanist: On Life in Known Space

Slimepriestess6 Apr 2020 9:59 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(hivewired.wordpress.com)

Transhumanism as Simplified Humanism

Eliezer Yudkowsky5 Dec 2018 20:12 UTC

181 points

34 comments5 min readLW link

[Video Link] PostHuman: An Introduction to Transhumanism

Joshua_Blaine15 Nov 2013 2:04 UTC

4 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Transhumanist Fables

Scott Alexander28 May 2013 1:55 UTC

133 points

7 comments3 min readLW link

BCIs and the ecosystem of modular minds

beren21 Jul 2023 15:58 UTC

88 points

14 comments11 min readLW link

New paper: Long-Term Trajectories of Human Civilization

Kaj_Sotala12 Aug 2018 9:10 UTC

33 points

1 comment2 min readLW link

(kajsotala.fi)

Transhumanism and Gender Relations

daenerys11 Nov 2011 1:48 UTC

11 points

118 comments2 min readLW link

How to Seem (and Be) Deep

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Oct 2007 18:13 UTC

124 points

123 comments4 min readLW link

Transhumanism and the denotation-connotation gap

PhilGoetz18 Aug 2010 15:33 UTC

25 points

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A path to human autonomy

Nathan Helm-Burger29 Oct 2024 3:02 UTC

53 points

16 comments20 min readLW link

The basic argument for the feasibility of transhumanism

ChrisHallquist14 Oct 2012 8:04 UTC

9 points

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Transhumanism and assisted suicide

SeventhNadir31 Oct 2010 8:48 UTC

7 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

The biological intelligence explosion

Rob Lucas25 Jul 2021 13:08 UTC

8 points

5 comments4 min readLW link

For The People Who Are Still Alive

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 Dec 2008 17:13 UTC

45 points

72 comments4 min readLW link

Rescuing the Extropy Magazine archives

Deku-shrub1 Jul 2017 14:25 UTC

35 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

[video] “Transhuman”, featuring Sandberg and Bostrom

Pablo16 Jun 2013 18:59 UTC

8 points

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The Growth of My Pessimism: Transhumanism, Immortalism, Effective Altruism.

diegocaleiro28 Nov 2015 11:07 UTC

15 points

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The first future and the best future

KatjaGrace25 Apr 2024 6:40 UTC

106 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Good transhumanist fiction?

NancyLebovitz13 Oct 2012 14:47 UTC

13 points

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A Transhumanist Poem

Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg) 5 Mar 2011 9:16 UTC

22 points

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Do not miss the cutoff for immortality! There is a probability that you will live forever as an immortal superintelligent being and you can increase your odds by convincing others to make achieving the technological singularity as quickly and safely as possible the collective goal/project of all of humanity, Similar to “Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant.”

Oliver--Klozoff29 Jun 2023 3:45 UTC

1 point

0 comments28 min readLW link

Characterising utopia

Richard_Ngo2 Jan 2020 0:00 UTC

40 points

5 comments22 min readLW link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace

Matrice Jacobine11 Oct 2024 21:43 UTC

63 points

26 comments1 min readLW link

(darioamodei.com)

Something to fight for

RomanS14 Mar 2025 8:27 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Wireheading Done Right: Stay Positive Without Going Insane

9eB122 Nov 2016 3:16 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(qualiacomputing.com)

Brainstorming new senses

lululu20 May 2015 19:53 UTC

42 points

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Cascio in The Atlantic, more on cognitive enhancement as existential risk mitigation

Roko18 Jun 2009 15:09 UTC

23 points

92 comments3 min readLW link

Neo-Mohism

Bae's Theorem16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC

5 points

11 comments7 min readLW link

Introducing Avatarism: A Rational Framework for Building actual Heaven

ratiba ro15 Dec 2024 17:17 UTC

2 points

2 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What about transhumans and beyond?

AlignmentMirror2 Jul 2022 13:58 UTC

7 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Extropy magazine review

Peter lawless 27 Dec 2023 18:37 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

Unbounded Intelligence Lottery

kman7 Jul 2022 23:28 UTC

4 points

11 comments1 min readLW link

Touching the Old

Eliezer Yudkowsky20 Jul 2008 9:19 UTC

17 points

32 comments1 min readLW link

Straightforward Steps to Marginally Improve Odds of Whole Brain Emulation

Dom Polsinelli24 Mar 2025 17:14 UTC

8 points

20 comments6 min readLW link

The Rise and Stagnation of Modernity

Zero Contradictions2 Aug 2024 3:31 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

An Introduction to Me

AlithyInfinity24 Aug 2023 16:45 UTC

0 points

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Any person/mind should have the right to suicide

askofa12 Jan 2023 0:32 UTC

14 points

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[untitled post]

superads9130 Apr 2022 13:01 UTC

0 points

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Reflecting on the transhumanist rebuttal to AI existential risk and critique of our debate methodologies and misuse of statistics

catgirlsruletheworld20 Aug 2024 1:59 UTC

−5 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Intelligence–Agency Equivalence ≈ Mass–Energy Equivalence: On Static Nature of Intelligence & Physicalization of Ethics

ank22 Feb 2025 0:12 UTC

1 point

0 comments6 min readLW link

Technology and Progress

Zero Contradictions1 Aug 2024 4:49 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readLW link

(thewaywardaxolotl.blogspot.com)

Brain preservation to prevent involuntary death: a possible cause area

Andy_McKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:36 UTC

39 points

1 comment10 min readLW link

I am trying to write the history of transhumanism-related communities

Ihor Kendiukhov29 Aug 2025 11:37 UTC

7 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

Guardians of the Gene Pool

Eliezer Yudkowsky16 Dec 2007 20:08 UTC

41 points

73 comments1 min readLW link

Superintelligent AI is necessary for an amazing future, but far from sufficient

So8res31 Oct 2022 21:16 UTC

132 points

48 comments34 min readLW link

On the proper piloting of flesh shoots

Mordecai Weynberg11 Oct 2022 18:52 UTC

−4 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

My Experience With A Magnet Implant

Vale7 Jan 2025 3:01 UTC

9 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

(vale.rocks)

[LINK] Refuting common objections to cognitive enhancement

grouchymusicologist7 Feb 2012 16:52 UTC

32 points

6 comments2 min readLW link

Will Martian G be enough to make healthy baseline babies?

Randomized, Controlled9 Mar 2021 3:30 UTC

4 points

8 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Robert McIntyre’s Brain Preservation Talk at the Long Now Foundation

JohnGreer28 Apr 2021 20:47 UTC

14 points

2 comments13 min readLW link

Transhumanism, genetic engineering, and the biological basis of intelligence.

fowlertm14 Sep 2022 15:55 UTC

41 points

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Building a transhumanist future: 15 years of hplusroadmap, now Discord

kanzure17 Jan 2023 21:17 UTC

42 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(twitter.com)

12020: a fine future for these holidays

Stuart_Armstrong25 Dec 2019 15:01 UTC

41 points

6 comments1 min readLW link

Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever? From Kurzgesagt—In a Nutshell

Noosphere8919 Aug 2022 19:32 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(www.youtube.com)

Genetically Modified Humans Born (Allegedly)

ryan_b28 Nov 2018 16:14 UTC

29 points

12 comments1 min readLW link

Suffering-Focused Ethics in the Infinite Universe. How can we redeem ourselves if Multiverse Immortality is real and subjective death is impossible.

Szymon Kucharski24 Feb 2021 21:02 UTC

−2 points

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[Question] Creating superintelligence without AGI

Antb17 Oct 2022 19:01 UTC

7 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

The Neuralink Monkey Demo

XelaP3 May 2021 2:29 UTC

19 points

9 comments1 min readLW link

Become a Superintelligence Yourself

Yaroslav Granowski10 May 2025 20:20 UTC

2 points

1 comment5 min readLW link

Sideloading: creating a model of a person via LLM with very large prompt

avturchin and RomanS

22 Nov 2024 16:41 UTC

13 points

4 comments35 min readLW link

Research Direction: Be the AGI you want to see in the world

scottviteri, sudo and Lauro Langosco

5 Feb 2023 7:15 UTC

44 points

0 comments7 min readLW link

Interview with Nectome CEO Robert McIntyre—Brain Preservation, Personal Identity, AGI, and More

JohnGreer23 Feb 2022 1:54 UTC

20 points

0 comments6 min readLW link

Bloggingheads: Yudkowsky and Horgan

Eliezer Yudkowsky7 Jun 2008 22:09 UTC

7 points

37 comments1 min readLW link

Memes and Rational Decisions

inferential9 Jan 2015 6:42 UTC

35 points

18 comments10 min readLW link

Rational Effective Utopia & Narrow Way There: Math-Proven Safe Static Multiversal mAX-Intelligence (AXI), Multiversal Alignment, New Ethicophysics… (Aug 11)

ank11 Feb 2025 3:21 UTC

13 points

8 comments38 min readLW link

We should all wear masks.

3Nora28 Sep 2025 22:39 UTC

1 point

0 comments3 min readLW link

Amputation of Destiny

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Dec 2008 18:00 UTC

56 points

70 comments8 min readLW link

Resurrecting all humans ever lived as a technical problem

RomanS31 Oct 2021 18:08 UTC

47 points

37 comments7 min readLW link

The boat

RomanS22 Nov 2024 12:56 UTC

6 points

0 comments2 min readLW link

How best to show dying is bad

Zvi8 Mar 2011 15:18 UTC

26 points

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Complexity No Bar to AI (Or, why Computational Complexity matters less than you think for real life problems)

Noosphere897 Aug 2022 19:55 UTC

17 points

14 comments3 min readLW link

(www.gwern.net)

Have you considered getting rid of death?

Willa29 Aug 2022 1:31 UTC

20 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

(immortalityisgreat.substack.com)

Technological Resurrection: Two Possible Approaches

Alex Polischuk14 Mar 2022 17:53 UTC

−3 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

My Transhuman Dream

Johannes C. Mayer5 Apr 2022 15:44 UTC

8 points

0 comments4 min readLW link

Musings of a Layman: Technology, AI, and the Human Condition

Crimson Liquidity15 Jul 2024 18:40 UTC

−2 points

0 comments8 min readLW link

Overview of (Some) Biotech-Based Adult Intelligence Amplification Approaches

Ihor Kendiukhov25 Aug 2025 8:00 UTC

21 points

0 comments22 min readLW link

Disability Culture Meets the Transhumanist Condition

Rubix28 Oct 2011 19:02 UTC

39 points

150 comments3 min readLW link

Unaligned AGI & Brief History of Inequality

ank22 Feb 2025 16:26 UTC

−20 points

4 comments7 min readLW link

How to survive in an AGI cataclysm

RomanS23 Feb 2023 14:34 UTC

−4 points

3 comments4 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Leif Wenar’s The Deaths of Effective Altruism

Arden27 Mar 2024 19:17 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(www.wired.com)

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