Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition
by Ed Regis · first published 1990
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A collection of humorous scientific articles discussing the creation of artificial life forms, time machines, and faxing human minds.
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My favorite exploration of the possible future technologies is from a 1990 book: Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis It includes a great section on space travel and space living. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mambo_Chicken_and_the_Tr... https://www.amazon.com/Great-Mambo-Chicken-Transhuman-Condit...
on “Space colonies of the future as imagined by NASA in the 1970s” ↗Great Mambo Chicken and The Transhuman Condition http://www.amazon.com/Great-Mambo-Chicken-Transhuman-Conditi... Very interesting book.
on “Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain?” ↗There's a fun book Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition which includes a small section about possible upper limit for density of human population on earth. I think it was over 1 trillion. Fun book!
on “Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner” ↗…and Biases Language in Thought and Action Probability Theory: The Logic of Science The Adapted Mind Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach The Feynman Lectures on Physics The Tao is Silent Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
on “Books That Changed My Life” ↗Glad to see a voice from the strong AI skeptic camp here. Reminds me of a book I read a long time ago called "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition." I used to drink the kool-aid myself until a friend of mine snapped me out of it by saying, "Dude, you're telling me you actually want Skynet??" I gave him my copy of the book.
on “Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People” ↗A number of years ago I read a very interesting book titled "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition". Despite the title this is a forward looking book exploring ideas surrounding applications of nanotechnology. The author talks about refrigerators that can print perfectly marbleized artificial beef…
on “Ask HN: How do you use 3D printers?” ↗This is potentially great news. The funny thing is that the first thing that crossed my mind is a book I read many years ago: Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition. http://www.amazon.com/Great-Mambo-Chicken-Transhuman-Conditi...
on “Google announces Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being” ↗Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition
on “The Year 2512” ↗When I first saw it in Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition, it followed with the quote "You need to take good care of your star or it gets all dark and icky." I suspect it was parodying some ad that must've gone like "...good care of your hair..."
on “Nuclear Fission Fuel Is Inexhaustible (2022)” ↗…(referring to it using that word specifically IIRC) the discussion was restricted to a few mailing lists (the extropians list, Yudkowsky's SL4 list and ISTR a transhumanism list), one or two books (e.g., Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition), Omni magazine and maybe Wired magazine. And even in the mid-1990s, it was always AI that was expected to bring about the singularity, not the internet. (Most writers didn't expect AI to develop as…
on “AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making” ↗…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791891 >Just be glad you didn't have to explain an in joke about ftp sites, the local loopback address, and a troll, in a deposition, under oath, to Scientology lawyers, like Keith Henson did. The Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition, page 93-94: https://www.gwern.net/docs/transhumanism/1990-regis-greatmam... >Finally some evidence about the success of cryonics emerged from among the ranks of the frozen themselves. Not that they…
on “What ever happened to the first cryogenically frozen humans?” ↗