Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
"LOVE LOVE LOVE your futorological brickbats! Love them! You are in fine company with Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary with these." -- Paulina Borsook
"Devoted to highly rhetorical nitpicking, but it is fun to read." -- Chris Mooney
"Rather close but correct reading." -- Evgeny Morozov
"Mean, but true." -- Annalee Newitz
"Dale Carrico's skewering of the salvific pretensions of Silicon Valley's soi disant savior/founders never disappoints." -- Frank Pasquale
"Pretty breathless, but I guess it had to be said." -- Bruce Sterling
"An essential reality check for those who are too entranced by transhumanism to notice the sordid reality behind the curtain." -- Charlie Stross
3 comments:
As usual, Giulio Prisco gets to the heart of the matter:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/dale-carrico-thinks-you-are-like-sooo-not-cool#post-69478
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Giulio Prisco
Key Master
As usual, R.U. Sirius analysis is accurate.
Charlie Stross may have political opinions similar to those of Dale Carrico, and agree with Carrico's critique of transhumanism to some extent, but he doesn't make a fool of himself by pretending to consider transhumanist aspirations scientifically impossible. He knows better. See also my thoughts on some of Carrico/Stross points.
Carrico's "arguments" boil down to "You are a filthy Robot Cultist, so you are not qualified to have opinions on serious political issues." These are the same "arguments" often used by those homophobes who say "You are a filthy gay, so you are not qualified to have opinions on serious political issues," so they are quite surreal when they come from a gay rights activist like Carrico.
> Giulio Prisco gets to the heart. . .
La Kate in _Lion_: I never cease to marvel at the quickness of your mind.
I took a look at the comments. I think it's fair to summarize them thusly:
A) I don't care what he thinks
B) He doesn't understand us
These are devastating rebuttals of your arguments. I don't know Dale I think I may have to stop reading your blog and ... where's the queue for the robot girlfriend?
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