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If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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This was my real plan for quite a long time.Originally posted by The Mad Monk View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Do you have any views that haven't already been espoused by Malthus and Isaac Asimov?If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Uh, what? I believe technology will allow us to create virtual abundance that can more or less eliminate scarcity in a temporal/local sense (which is pretty much the opposite end of the spectrum from Malthus), and Asimov had basically nothing to say about any of the insane transhuman stuff I go on about.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Kill all non-believers worked for centuries, not sure why what is so special about 21st century for that method to suddenly stop working.
Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"Comment
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Convert to Christianity. You'll instantly be significantly closer to getting everyone to share your crazy beliefs.“As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”
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Yes, but then my beliefs will be incorrect as well as insane.
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Transhumanism is basically a religion. Get yourself some hymns or chants or some such.Comment
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Oh, yeah that's a good point. I can't remember which author was all up in the transhuman business now. But that was what I had you pegged withOriginally posted by Lorizael View Post
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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I guess you take a more proselytical form of Larry Niven.If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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I don't buy this, to be honest. Transhumanism at its core is just two ideas: (1) that we can change humans with technology and (2) that we should do so. The first is an incontrovertible fact. Artificial hearts, prosthetics, nootropics--all of these things are plainly real. That we should change humans is certainly a matter one could debate, but I'm not sure what about it constitutes a religious idea.Originally posted by Elok View Post
Basically anyone writing "serious" SF from the 90s on.Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Excellent use of scare quotes, because unless it's DE:HR transhumanism has never been done well. Let's face it, Neuromancer sucked. Dune was OK, I guess.
It's sad because I love sci fi but the genre is so depressingly and consistently bad except for a few golden gems.If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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Also, HC, there basically aren't any SF writers I've encountered who whose fiction or politics mimics my crazy philosophy, because the idea that morality is unknowable without first consuming the universe is not really a popular (or sane) view.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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This sentence means your opinions on SF are incorrect. Sorry.Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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I enjoyed it, but it really doesn't rank that highly for me. I can see how it is influential, but I thought the characters were pretty weak and the plot not very exciting.If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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