(Part 2) Top products from r/Transhuman
We found 17 product mentions on r/Transhuman. We ranked the 37 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots
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Show Reddit reviews22. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
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Number of reviews: 1
Penguin Books
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25. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Number of reviews: 1
a history of the study of human intelligence with some new ideas
Show Reddit reviews26. Better than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves (Philosophy in Action)
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Show Reddit reviews27. The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations
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Basic Books AZ
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29. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Number of reviews: 1
4x8 inches, 494 pages. Paperback with designs in green, pink and black
Show Reddit reviews30. Dignity: The Essential Role It Plays in Resolving Conflict
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Show Reddit reviews31. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
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Show Reddit reviews32. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
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James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility, paperback
Show Reddit reviews33. Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (Anchor Library of Science)
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Show Reddit reviews34. Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever
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Show Reddit reviews35. Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
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A recent (and I think the best yet) book on what a smarter-than-human AI should look like: Superintelligence
http://www.amazon.com/Blindsight-Peter-Watts/dp/0765319640
best hard sci-fi novel I've read in the last few years
This one was a pretty good read.
The Singularity Is Near
Perhaps books like The Art of Memory, The Logic Of Failure, Prometheus Rising, Finite and Infinite Games could offer some new perspectives.
Edward De Bono's work on lateral thinking might also be of interest.
Human Enhancement An informative collection of essays on some topics possibly under the domain of transhumanism.
Better than Human Although I haven't personsonally read this, you may be interested.
Deep admiration.
I started "Ending Aging" with a host of reservations
http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Aging-Rejuvenation-Breakthroughs-Lifetime/dp/0312367066
Aubrey demolished them one after the other. I still fear he is optimistic on timescales. But then I'm temperamentally a pessimist about most things.
You'll probably need this too.
Is this a replacement for / update of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever ?
Eric Drexler's Engines of Creation, which is mentioned, is a jaw dropping book about what could be possible when this technology develops.
The biggest hurdle is advanced mechanosynthesis. Unfortunately progress on mechanosynthesis beyond the basic 2003 proof of concept mentioned has been disappointing so far. It will be a revolution of revolutions when we get it.
On the science front, try Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives by Miguel Nicolelis, and Sebastian Seung's Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are. I'd also suggest looking into the research on biocompatible materials, but I personally don't know of good books in that area.
>I mean, it's not even remotely feasible, I think, due to the problems of scale
The nanofactory has been physically analyzed down to statistical mechanics and quantum positional uncertainty. Molecular dynamics simulations show that gears at this scale would absolutely work.
Drexler's Nanosystems covers just about every possible criticism you can think of, and no one has been able to find find any significant errors in its analysis.