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Nick Bostrom — who wrote both documents.
Co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association and co-author of the 1998 Declaration; author, sixteen years later, of the book that made existential risk from artificial intelligence a mainstream concern.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
Ageing and death are problems, not conditions.
The moral move is small and total: reclassify what everyone has always treated as the frame of life as a defect inside it, and the obligation to fix it follows from ordinary medical ethics.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Whether the transition kills us first.
The movement contains both the people most eager to build a superintelligence and the people most alarmed about it, and frequently they are the same people. Bostrom wrote the declaration and then wrote Superintelligence.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
Material and open to intervention at every level, including the level of the intervener
After death
To be abolished if possible. Cryonic suspension is an attempt to convert death into a pause; nothing is claimed about survival if the attempt fails.