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The Prometheus Project
Book • 1968
In 'The Prometheus Project', Gerald Feinberg discusses the potential impact of technologies like AI and genetic engineering on human society.
He proposes a global democratic process to set long-term goals for humanity, suggesting that the United Nations could facilitate a worldwide discussion on how to use these technologies for the betterment of human consciousness or to avoid consumerism.
The book is a pioneering work in examining the intersection of technology and societal goals.
He proposes a global democratic process to set long-term goals for humanity, suggesting that the United Nations could facilitate a worldwide discussion on how to use these technologies for the betterment of human consciousness or to avoid consumerism.
The book is a pioneering work in examining the intersection of technology and societal goals.
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as a book from the late 1960s discussing the creation of superhuman thinking machines, molecular nanotechnology, and human immortality.


Ben Goertzel

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#103 – Ben Goertzel: Artificial General Intelligence
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as a book that introduced him to concepts similar to the singularity.


Ben Goertzel

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Ep 564: Dr. Ben Goertzel: The Road to Creating Benevolent Decentralized AGI
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as a book that laid out a coherent argument for machines smarter than people, nanotech, and fixing the human body.


Ben Goertzel

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Facing Superintelligence (with Ben Goertzel)
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as an early influential science‑fact book that described future machines smarter than people and raised societal choice questions.


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Ben Goertzel - The Primordial Soup of AGI Minds (Worthy Successor, Episode 26)




