Most transhumanist writing is something like a pastiche of Ayn Rand, an instruction manual for assembling a lawn mower, a Fox News broadcast, and a barking late-night television commercial for teeth whitening or boner-pills.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Reading the Transhumanists
Upgraded and adapted from the Moot for a post a while back, a random insult that seems to me in retrospect to capture nicely the transhumanist Weltanschauung:
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Boris, dahlink, you are being very naughty veeth ze pictures!
I like the repeated, partially obscured "Nanobot computing data"
lines crowded in a small font in the background. I guess they're
supposed to make you aware of all that nanobot computation going on.
sort of like the sound-effect balloons in a comic book, or
like when a little kid brandishes a pretend gun, or flies
a pretend plane, or zaps the baddies with his heat vision like
Superman, he makes sound effects to stand in for the
shooting and flying and zapping.
When the advertising biz does it, it's the height of
sophistication.
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