The Doomsday argument keeps you awake at night. It purports to prove, from basic probability theory and a few seemingly innocuous empirical premisses, that the risk that our species will go extinct soon is much greater than previously thought. Cosmological Constant and the Final Anthropic Hypothesis Examines the implications of recent evidence for a cosmological constant for the prospects of indefinite information processing in the multiverse. It follows that the na ve transhumanist dogma that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.
NEW Values are fluffy cloudy things.
This paper attempts to sketch some transhumanist values. The Polymath list archives . I also post occasionally on some other lists, including the extropians and the transhuman lists which you can find out about here . I've edited and html-ized one particularly long thread on the extropians list from a few years ago, on the topic of how to avoid nanotechnological disaster, here . The final fruit and crowning completion of my earlier efforts as a practicing poet.