{"id":305,"date":"2007-12-21T05:08:50","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T19:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=305"},"modified":"2007-12-21T05:08:50","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T19:08:50","slug":"risky-advancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/21\/risky-advancements","title":{"rendered":"Risky advancements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ieet.org\/index.php\/IEET\/more\/2181\/\">latest warning<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/dresdencodak.com\/cartoons\/dc_034.htm\">Dresden Codak<\/a>&#8216;s Aaron Diaz:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Do we really want to live in a society populated by geriatric 27-year-olds? In living so long and spending so much time `thinking&#8217; do we not also run the risk of becoming a cold, passionless race incapable of experiencing our two emotions (fear and not fear)?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also interesting, is a talk by Vernor Vinge from back in February to the Long Now institute titled &#8220;What if the Singularity Does Not Happen?&#8221;, to which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/articles\/art0696.html?printable=1\">slides are available<\/a> along with an audio recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest warning from Dresden Codak&#8216;s Aaron Diaz: Do we really want to live in a society populated by geriatric 27-year-olds? In living so long and spending so much time `thinking&#8217; do we not also run the risk of becoming a cold, passionless race incapable of experiencing our two emotions (fear and not fear)? Also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}