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@zero-state Feb 26, 2018, 3:57 PM UTC

On Democracy: Value and Limits

The following post is related to Social Futurism (SF) and the Zero State (ZS), but only reflects the views of the author (Ámon Ásentír, AKA Dr. M. Amon Twyman). Within the SF/ZS sphere of influence,…

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@zero-state Feb 3, 2018, 3:18 PM UTC

AI Ethics and the Continuum of Sentience

Some years ago I gave a talk called “Consciousness and the Transhuman”, in which I discussed important connections between questions of neuroscience, advancing cognitive technologies, human augmentat…

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@zero-state Feb 2, 2018, 6:00 PM UTC

Alternate Reality Games as Cybernetic Organisms

This article is part of a series on Alternate Reality Gaming (ARG), particularly as it relates to cutting-edge computing technologies. Previous articles (here and here) set out the starting point for…

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@zero-state Jan 30, 2018, 10:27 PM UTC

Society of Mind & the Network Society

Here at AGI Laboratory we explore the intersection of technology and society, where AI, VR, and Big Data (among other things) come crashing into our cultures, social traditions, economies and politic…

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@zero-state Jan 29, 2018, 7:30 PM UTC

Upload Lives Matter… Or Else.

A long-time science fiction riff which may be on the verge of becoming reality is the idea of the Copy, which is to say the digital emulation of a human mind. The viability of that idea is still deba…

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@zero-state Jan 7, 2018, 10:04 PM UTC

A Quick but Important One-Question Survey

The Foundation has requested that the following survey be posted. Zero State is taking no opinion on the matter until its members have spoken. Vote by up-voting and commenting below. The best comment…

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@zero-state Jan 6, 2018, 7:41 PM UTC

Hecate Trivia

-805.4 / Saturday 6 January 12018 We don't believe in gods... do we? As has been explained elsewhere, ZS is both rational and empirical on the one hand, and also embracing of the power of mythos on t…

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@zero-state Jan 4, 2018, 12:40 AM UTC

Ooooh! Nice Block-chain!

But nothing is secure when you don't delete your e-mails with your original password and never change it . . . . You should know better, Amon. I would have taken this account for myself but I see tha…

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@zero-state Dec 30, 2017, 2:30 PM UTC

Catch Foundation Agents at CES 2018 & Win $5,000.00 USD

Catch Foundation Agents at CES 2018 and Win $5,000.00 USD (Las Vegas, NV, USA – Jan 2018) The Foundation has announced that there will be two agents on the floor of CES 2018 (The Consumer Electronics…

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@zero-state Dec 5, 2017, 3:00 PM UTC

Fractal Law (How Zero State Operates)

The Zero State holds to the Rule of Law, in accord with the Principles of Social Futurism (specifically, Principle 2.4). At the heart of that commitment is the idea that individual liberty must be pr…

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