Meetup presentation: technology, intelligence, and the future

Greetings all,

This Tuesday, I would like to try something new. I will give a presentation on a topic of interest to me, and we’ll have a discussion afterwards. I would like your feedback on the format as well as the location of the event.

I will consider some new ideas on our place in the universe by extrapolating some long-range trends into the future. Specifically, there are two trends I will discuss: the expansion of intelligence from the beginning the universe to the information age, and the increasing control that humans have over nature.

Here are some keywords on the topics we’ll cover and discuss after the meetup:

Technological evolution, intelligence expansion, natural versus intelligent evolution, science and pseudoscience, accelerating change, costs and benefits of technology, doomsday scenarios, Malthusianism, Kardashev scale, post-humanism, optimism versus pessimism.

We will meet in the second floor community room of the Central Market in Plano.

If you would like to read up on some of the things I will touch upon, check out the following articles:

https://mises.org/stor... (https://mises.org/story/2439)
https://oneminute.rati... (https://oneminute.rationalmind.net/science/)
https://oneminute.rati... (https://oneminute.rationalmind.net/technology/)
https://en.wikipedia.o... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_evolution)
https://en.wikipedia.o... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity#Accelerating_change)

Note: This is a joint meetup with my Artificial Intelligence meetup group.