Eagerly waiting for the end of Transhumanism...
About once a month, I hear another Transhumanist in the news. Recently, it was Kurzweil in Newsweek saying that he will resurrect his father. As an atheist, I find this stuff very annoying because Kurzweil is using his credentials and technical jargon to pitch a religion to a public that doesn't know any better. The reason he does this is not to convince others in the giant universe-sized computer ball which will be God, but to convince himself. Does he really believe in this stuff, or is this just a scam to make money? One thing is certain, he is either a liar or a fool.
Transhumanism started in the late 80s when people began to notice the dramatic increase in computing power and extrapolated the trend. Transhumanism will end when the price-to-performance ratio of computers reaches it's inevitable plateau and information technology becomes a commodity. I just wish it would happen already!!!
Transhumanism started in the late 80s when people began to notice the dramatic increase in computing power and extrapolated the trend. Transhumanism will end when the price-to-performance ratio of computers reaches it's inevitable plateau and information technology becomes a commodity. I just wish it would happen already!!!
Glad to see you are still posting I enjoy your blog very much as I share your sentiments and irritation. I sense that the end is near for this odd cult. Have you read Nassim Taleb's wonderful, best-selling, book "The Black Swan"? Quite a fascinating read and a powerful, although unintentional, refutation of transhumanism.
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" Kurzweil is using his credentials and technical jargon to pitch a religion to a public that doesn't know any better. The reason he does this is not to convince others in the giant universe-sized computer ball which will be God, but to convince himself. Does he really believe in this stuff, or is this just a scam to make money? One thing is certain, he is either a liar or a fool"
this ridiculous comment is a perfect example of the total illegitimacy of Singularity pseudo-skeptics-
the ONLY way to claim that resurrecting a human is 'religion' is to claim that a human is some MAGICAL and UNQUANTIFIABLE spirit and not a pattern of molecules that can be rebuilt from records and simulations of history [Nick Bostrom estimated that the entire history of all human experience is only about 10^35 bits]-
it reveals the contradiction and absurdity of the very basis of this silly skepticism of OBVIOUS patterns of accelerating complexity in Nature and any physical and causal system-
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