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Dreyfus's AI Critique Echoes in Modern Transhumanist Ambitions and Policy

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The historical critique of artificial intelligence by Hubert Dreyfus, initially published in 1965, is being revisited in light of contemporary ambitions for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Dreyfus's work, which drew parallels between AI and alchemy, is now seen as relevant to the transhumanist goals of figures like Eliezer Yudkowsky, whose ideas influence tech leaders such as Sam Altman. These aspirations for radical life extension and reality remaking, once confined to occultism, are now shaping policy decisions within governments, including the Biden and Trump administrations, impacting national security and global technological order. AI

IMPACT Historical AI critiques are being re-examined as transhumanist goals influence policy, potentially reshaping national security strategies.

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    “Unless you strip bodies of their corporeal nature and impart corporeal nature to incorporeal beings, nothing you expect will take place”*… The Alchemist , Phil

    “Unless you strip bodies of their corporeal nature and impart corporeal nature to incorporeal beings, nothing you expect will take place”*… The Alchemist , Philip Galle (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder) c. 1558 ( source ) In 1965, Hubert Dreyfus wrote the first widely-considered c…

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