Great mambo chicken and the transhuman condition

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1. yborisNov 2021
   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...

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2. yborisJan 2021
   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!
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3. rebootthesystemSep 2017
   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 and, at the other extreme, downloading your brain into a robot for telepresence and space travel.

   3D printing, taken to the extreme of piling molecules on top of each other, could fundamentally change the way we make things.

   In today's reality I am looking for opportunities to push the envelope. This could mean everything and anything from better hardware to better services. A few interesting ideas have come forward. Trying to filter through them now.

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4. tboyd47Dec 2016
   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.
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5. rebootthesystemOct 2015
   Great Mambo Chicken and The Transhuman Condition

   http://www.amazon.com/Great-Mambo-Chicken-Transhuman-Conditi...

   Very interesting book.

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6. eyudkowskyJun 2008
   Godel Escher Bach

   The Moral Animal

   Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics 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

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