Robot Slaves Rule! - January’s Top 20 Essays at Transhumanity.net
Posted: Fri, February 01, 2013
Articles examining robot slavery placed #1 and #2 in hit totals at Transhumanity.net in January. What else did our audience respond to? A wide variety, ranging from wireheading to water wars, from Capitalism to Confucius, from transhumanism to female freedom fighters.
Any new writers? Yes, notably Rich Lee, who placed two of his biohacking essays on our list. What “seems to work”? Original ideas, assertively expressed. Thanks!
Top 20 Essays published in January
1. Kara & the Lesson of Adam - by Valkyrie Ice
2. Robots and Slavery - what do humans want when we are “Masters”? - by Hank Pellissier
3. Common Misconceptions about Transhumanism - is it a cult that seeks to destroy humanity? - by Gennady Stolyarov II
4. Water Wars - nine thirsty regions where H2O conflict is threatening - by Hank Pellissier
5. Is it Time to call “Capitalism” an Existential Threat? - by Khannea Suntzu
6. Why is “Confucian Culture” so Wildly Successful? - by Hank Pellissier
7. Female Freedom Fighters: Malala Yousufzai, etc. - by Joern Pallensen
8. People Who Don’t Want to Live Forever are just “Suicidal” - by Hank Pellissier
9. From Humanism to Transhumanism - by Jose Cordeiro
10. Your Brain Could Have Been So Much Brighter - by Hank Pellissier
11. Future Love: Romancing the Robot - by Extropia DaSilva
12. Our Vampire Future? Wireheading and High-Tech Psychopaths - by Dirk Bruere
13. This List of 30 Billionaires: which one will end Aging and Death? - by Hank Pellissier
14. Autism: Disease or the New Normal? - by TJL-2080
15. A Cassandra Moment: is Aaron Swartz the martyr of a New Revolution? - by Valkyrie Ice
16. “If Eternal LIfe Becomes a Medical Possibiity, I Will Have it Because I am a Tech Pirate” - by Rich Lee
17. Vagina Dentata? Techno-Gizmos for the Elimination of Rape - by Hank Pellissier
18. If They Say No: Regarding Indefinite Life Extension - by Eric Schulke
19. Want to BioHack Your Brain? $50,000 Cranial Surgery costs only $10 via DIY Black Market - by Rich Lee
20. Why I am Running for Humanity+ Board of Directors - by Rachel Haywire
Very Honorable Mention
In Praise of the Borg - “Resistance is Futile; you will want to be Assimilated” - by Dirk Bruere
(published December 31, 2012 - it has 6,220 hits)
