Why Now is Special

• Multi-Planetary Species
• AI revolutions
• Brain-Machine Interface
• Longevity
• Ability to kill all of humanity (nukes / bio)
• Genetic Re-engineering
• Close to last generation that uses sex to reproduce

• The precipice:

  • Claim that we now possess the ability to destroy ourselves without the wisdom to avoid doing so. => high probability this will happen.
  • If we can avoid total destruction in next couple 100 years, we will have the ability to "live forever"
  • Now the principles of Darwinian evolution are evolving. -> conception through sex disappearing
  • We are living through a revolution: Information revolution. We have internalize it so dont think about it so much. With our current political situation: Could we be "paying the tab" for all the great 2\

1st century tech? This information age revolution is different because a core principle is the perpetually accelerating innovation. Society does not have time to "catch up" with the new world order and adapt.

• The man of knowledge in our time has a burden he never imaged, the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed. Use to believe that truth was slim and elusive and once we found it our troubles would be over. Now we are choking in truth. (Denial of Death)
• Scientific revolution may well end history and start somethign different (Reason that now is different)
• These days every year is revolutionary. Today, even a thiry-year old can honestly tell disbelieving teenagers "When I was young, the was completely different"
• Ours is the first time in history that the world is dominated by a peace-loving elite - politicians, business people, intellectuals and artists which genuinely see war as both evil and avoidable.
• Homo sapiens are transcending biologically determined limits. It is now beginning to break the laws of natural selection, replacing them with the laws of intelligent design
• For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating to little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined.