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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

New World Future Society Article Is Up

A slight tweak on a post that appeared here first, How To Write Your Transhumanist Article (A Helpful Guide for More Profitable Prophesying) is now up at WFS. Yes, I'm a sucker for meta humor.

UPDATE: John Howard has shown up there in full freak out mode. Should we be worried for our poor John?

1 comment:

jimf said...

> How To Write Your Transhumanist Article (A Helpful Guide for More Profitable Prophesying)
> is now up at WFS. Yes, I'm a sucker for meta humor.

Mark Plus thinks the "transhumorists" (as Athena Andreadis calls them)
may have jumped the shark.


http://thelifeofmanquamanonearth.blogspot.com/2012/06/dangers-of-geek-culture-to-men-who.html
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The dangers of geek culture to men who might otherwise have useful lives

. . .

I encountered. . . a 17-year-old cryonicist with an impaired ability
to interpret social cues, this week end at the Venturist Cryonics Conference,
and I found the experience eye-rolling. He reminded me of a former coworker,
a guy about 40 who had overdosed on comic books; computer games;
science fiction, fantasy and horror movies; and on novels in the same
genres. I could tell that all the time he wasted on these media didn't
prepare him for employability, much less for dealing with life's other
practical problems.
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http://thelifeofmanquamanonearth.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-have-occasional-problem-with-anxiety.html
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I have an occasional problem with anxiety

. . .


I've. . . soured on transhumanism after seeing that it has nothing going for it,
really, after observing it for the past two decades. . .

One, transhumanism tends to distract people from doing useful stuff. The
guy back around 1990 who compared FM-2030 to a mime who imitates the motions
of a productive worker without doing any work himself, came closer to the
truth than he probably knew at the time.

And two, transhumanism lacks staying power. We've already entered the "FM who?
Extropi-what?" era as people cycle through transhumanism as a fad on the way to
middle age and mortality, and I suspect that in another decade we'll see a
younger crop of transhumanists who will live in the "Eliezer who?" era as
they become enamored of some other transhumanist celebrity no one has heard of yet.