About the diyhpl.us wiki

The diyhpl.us wiki (diyhpluswiki) is a wiki for open source hardware, do-it-yourself biohacking and practical human enhancement engineering projects which could be called transhumanism. The engineering teams behind this wiki can be found in the hplusroadmap IRC channel (logs). Our projects are self-funded by the diyhpl.us group and community.

The domain name "diyhpl.us" comes from "do-it-yourself human enhancement" or "plus". The domain name "diyhpl.us" (diyhplus) hosts the diyhplus wiki (diyhpluswiki) which covers topics such as human enhancement, genetic engineering, germline genetic engineering, gene therapy, cell therapy, human enhancement, intelligence enhancement, open-source hardware, molecular nanotechnology, kinematic self-replicating machines, do-it-yourself biology, synthetic biology, kinematic self-replicating machines, molecular nanotechnology, evolutionary algorithms for applied molecular evolution, etc.

Most of this wiki is an attempt to summarize the interesting developments and techniques from over 15 years of hplusroadmap IRC chat logs which are publicly available logs.

Interesting pages

  • Potential human enhancements via human embryo germline genetic engineering is the diyhpluswiki's long-running 15+ year living document of potential human embryo germline modifications. The proposed and documented human embryo engineering enhancements include upgrades for longevity, intelligence, learning, memory, sleep, disease resistance, future proofing, immune system upgrades, and many other speculative subjects. It's a combination of direct genetic engineering interventions (such as upregulation, overexpression, knock-in, knock-out, etc), genome-wide association studies (GWAS) mutational hints, human studies, familial studies, transgenic mice studies, transgenic rat studies, and other sources of knowledge. The goal is to provide a roadmap for embryo engineering and embryo technology development. At this point, the diyhplus human embryo engineering wish list is the largest list of potential human enhancements on the web.

Other pages:

Index of pages

Editing this wiki

Submit a pull request on github: https://github.com/kanzure/diyhpluswiki

Register to edit here and see other commands. You can also clone this wiki with git and push changes back:

git clone git://diyhpl.us/diyhpluswiki.git

Note to push changes you must push with your registered account:

git push username@diyhpl.us:/srv/git/diyhpluswiki.git master

You can make this easier by updating the remotes:

git remote set-url origin username@diyhpl.us:/srv/git/diyhpluswiki.git

Now "git push" should work without debilitating complaint.

browse wiki history on cgit

What is hplusroadmap?

hplusroadmap is a collaborative community of engineers, scientists, and makers working to transform transhumanist concepts into practical projects and open-source technology, with a focus on biological enhancement, longevity, intelligence, nanotechnology, space colonization, and other emerging technologies.

The #hplusroadmap IRC channel is a technology development and engineering group that focuses on projects such as:

  • do-it-yourself biology, ?genetic engineering, gene therapy, biohacking, ?synthetic biology
  • human embryo genetic engineering (ref), human cloning, non-human cloning, chimeras, hybrids, microchimerism, xenotransplantation, in vitro fertilization
  • artificial womb, uterus (xeno)transplantation, ex vivo uterus, organ xenotransplantation
  • DNA synthesis machine development
  • brain emulation, human brain uploading, computational neuroscience, neuroanatomy, neurosurgery
  • nootropics, smart drugs, intelligence enhancement, memory enhancement
  • cryonics, biobanking
  • molecular nanotechnology
  • molecular biology, polymerase, fusion proteins, ?directed evolution, gene editing
  • protein engineering, protein design, protein language models, protein diffusion, enzyme engineering
  • nutrition, bodybuilding
  • open-source hardware development
  • ?space colonization, ?megastructure engineering, habitats, mining, communication, transportation
  • ?self-replication, self-replicating machines, kinematic self-replicating machines, RepRap
  • robots, mechanical automation, machining, electronics
  • computer architecture, supercomputing, parallel computing, decentralized p2p protocols or distributed systems
  • intelligence (both biological and artificial), superintelligence, ?biological superintelligence, in vitro neural tissue culture, biocomputing
  • open-source software development, computer programming, non-computer programming, in materio computing
  • life extension, anti-aging, longevity research
  • transhumanism
  • applied cryptography, zero-knowledge proofs, bitcoin technology development

Chat logs both recent and historical logs

All logs are stored at https://gnusha.org/logs/?C=M;O=D and are instantly updated after receiving new messages.

Connecting to IRC

The easiest way to join is to simply go to http://web.libera.chat/#hplusroadmap and click "Start".

Discord bridge: https://discord.gg/vFPzfaaeXv

Users who plan to contribute often are encouraged to seek out better IRC clients. The channel inhabitants seem to like irssi, HexChat, ChatZilla for Firefox, Textual for OS X, Pidgin, and a variety of bouncers and remote shells.

  • download and run an IRC client
  • /connect irc.libera.chat
  • /join #hplusroadmap

The hplusroadmap chat is an active community with daily, weekly and monthly participants working on technology development.

Collaboration

We have a wide range of different projects, some that are open source technology engineering projects, and others that are private commercial ventures. We're open to collaboration in public on open source or other open projects and are always interested in meeting collaborators in the extended community.

Project funding and opportunities

There's some funding available for hplusroadmap projects. Are you interested in making human clones? Do you want to work on molecular nanotechnology? Bring us your projects and let's talk. If we're not the right fit for funding your human enhancement project, then we likely know someone else who would be a better match.

History

The hplusroadmap IRC channel was started in 2008 to focus on a roadmap for transhumanist technology development, do-it-yourself biohacking and turning near-future ideas into practical engineering projects.

The channel was hosted on Freenode until 2021-05-19, when a hostile takeover of the network led us to move to libera.chat.

hplusroadmap originally started as a mailing list in 2007. The chat group was founded and is primarily administered by Bryan Bishop (kanzure).

Arc of history and S-N ratio

hplusroadmap has an unusually high signal-to-noise ratio. For example, the hplusroadmap community was extremely early to bitcoin showing word of bitcoin in the hplusroadmap logs on January 10, 2009 just 2 days after Satoshi Nakamoto's second or third announcement of the creation of bitcoin on the p2pfoundation mailing list. Thanks are also owed to Eugen Leitl for the nudge at that time.

Certain participants choose to remain anonymous such as investors, university professors, entrepreneurs, programmers, and various hackers. For a while we were adjacent to, though not affiliated with, the Jiankui He genetically modified human births controversy; and at different times adjacent to the Human Genome Synthesis Project (GP-write), coordination around DNA synthesis screening, the bitcoin project, and other things I'm probably forgetting.

It is hard to describe what this thing is. There is a wide variety of highly unusual and unlikely content in the logs. The Internet has a sort of "weirding way" about it, dunno what else to say except that there's some level of intentional or at least indirectly intentioned illegibility here. There's also noise and spam from time to time but we try to not have that. Buyer beware.

Naming of hplusroadmap

Why is the hplusroadmap engineering group called "hplusroadmap"? Originally there was a mailman-style public mailing list for discussion around a "Transhumanist Technical Roadmap" back in 2007 on Bryan Bishop (kanzure)'s previous wiki. The name "hplusroadmap" comes from "hplus" (h+) for "human plus" (which at one point was a term used to reference transhumanist projects) and "roadmap" for "roadmap".

Rules

  • no philosophy (violators that are bad at philosophy will be harshly judged)