by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 15, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 15 July 2024 In a recent article, I examined the technologism of the Transhumanist movement, especially the naïve confidence it places in what technoscience can do to shape the future of the human species. I explained that transhumanists are sanguine about the...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jul 1, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 1 July 2024 One of the most distinctive features of the Transhumanist project is its unflagging confidence that the advances of science and technology will usher humanity into a marvellous post-human future. No one has expressed this more sharply than Ray...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 17, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 17 June 2024 On May 8, 2024, Minister for Home Affairs K. Shanmugam delivered a ministerial statement in which he declared that Singapore is waging a war against drugs. He stressed that thousands will suffer if the nation-state does not take this war seriously...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 3, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 3 June 2024 On 2 and 3 November 2023, delegates from 27 governments around the world, including the heads of artificial intelligence companies, gathered at a museum at Bletchley Park near London for the world’s first AI Safety Summit. A Bletchley Declaration on...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 20, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 20 May 2024 On 11 June, 2022, The Washington Post reported that Google engineer Blake Lemoine was convinced that his chatbot LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) had become conscious. Together with a collaborator, Lemoine tried to present evidence to...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 6, 2024 | Pulse
Pulse 6 May 2024 On 2 April 2024, The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, led by Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, issued a Declaration entitled Infinite Dignity. This document provides an exposition of the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on human...
