tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post734533305531391649..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: You Can Thank the Robot Cultists for Ted CruzDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-20229448606329443552013-10-01T12:20:10.376-07:002013-10-01T12:20:10.376-07:00“For too many of our friends and family, life has ...“For too many of our friends and family, life has been<br />cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking.<br />Art is one of the crazy ones who thinks it doesn’t have<br />to be this way."<br /><br />It's called medicine. Nobody on earth thinks its crazy to invest in medical research and better administration of care on harm reduction models. Nobody on earth. But to pretend that you are going to live a thousand years in a model hot gengineered or nanoboticized bod or shiny robot body or forever as a cyberangel in Holodeck Heaven is indeed pseudo-scientific craziness peddled by faith-based techno-transcendentalists too scared of death to live life on its actual terms or eager to con the rubes making phony promises. Every dollar of money and every second of attention diverted from real healthcare research and administration into death-denialist techno-transcendentalist nonsense is lost to the collective effort to actually cure real diseases and ease real suffering and provide real health security to everybody.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-89042740201695871102013-10-01T11:25:19.407-07:002013-10-01T11:25:19.407-07:00> . . .as well as the techno-immortalist transh...> . . .as well as the techno-immortalist transhumanoid Robot Cult<br />> sect's sooper-boner pill/anti-aging skin kreme longevity<br />> Vegas roadshow, SENS and all that nonsense.<br /><br />Hey, the roadshow's just picked up a new act:<br /><br />http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/10/01/google-vs-death-transhumanist-responses/<br />------------------<br />In a recent post on G+, Google CEO Larry Page said:<br />“Art and I are excited about tackling aging and illness.<br />These issues affect us all—from the decreased mobility<br />and mental agility that comes with age, to life-threatening<br />diseases that exact a terrible physical and emotional<br />toll on individuals and families. . .<br /><br />Google today announced Calico, a new company that will<br />focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge<br />of aging and associated diseases. Arthur D. Levinson,<br />Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple,<br />will be Chief Executive Officer and a founding investor.” . . .<br />Tim Cook, Chief Executive Officer of Apple, said:<br />“For too many of our friends and family, life has been<br />cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking.<br />Art is one of the crazy ones who thinks it doesn’t have<br />to be this way. There is no one better suited to lead this<br />mission and I am excited to see the results.”<br />====jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-28770503432183074532013-09-30T16:37:32.896-07:002013-09-30T16:37:32.896-07:00> But the point I personally want to emphasize ...> But the point I personally want to emphasize is that Peter Thiel<br />> is a Robot Cultist bankrolling the Singularitarian Robot Cult<br />> sect's dream of coding a history-ending sooper-intelligent<br />> Robot God as well as techno-immortalist transhumanoid Aubrey De Grey's<br />> sooper-boner pill/anti-aging skin kreme longevity Vegas roadshow, SENS.<br />><br />> . . .a somewhat sad wannabe Doctor Evil:<br /><br />'I'm Nate Caplan. . . My IQ is one hundred and sixty. I'm<br />in perfect physical and mental health. And I can pay you half<br />a million dollars right now. . . I know I look skinny. . .<br />but I have no lipid deficiencies. . . And I'm willing to give<br />up the caloric restriction. . . You'll get the money, and it<br />will be untraceable. All I want from you in return is a<br />guarantee that when the time comes, I'll be the one.'<br /><br />Nasim didn't know where to start. . . '**If** the Human<br />Connectome Project goes ahead. . .'<br /><br />'. . .I don't want the superintelligence to come<br />into existence before I'm uploaded. It's very important to me that I'm the<br />first transcendent being in this stellar system. I can't risk having to compete<br />with another resource-hungry entity: I have personal plans that require at<br />least one Jovian mass of computronium.'<br /><br />'Really? I have "personal plans" that require Naveen Andrews and a bottle of<br />coconut oil, but I don't expect they're going to happen either.'<br /><br />Caplan was bemused. 'Why are you so hostile?'<br /><br />'I don't know,' Nasim confessed. 'Maybe it's because I've had enough experience<br />of deluded fundamentalists to last a lifetime.'<br /><br />-- Greg Egan, _Zendegi_<br /><br />;-><br />jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com