tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post315862180984278341..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: New World Future Society Article Is UpDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-90161338110568421692012-06-13T12:02:03.733-07:002012-06-13T12:02:03.733-07:00> How To Write Your Transhumanist Article (A He...> How To Write Your Transhumanist Article (A Helpful Guide for More Profitable Prophesying)<br />> is now up at WFS. Yes, I'm a sucker for meta humor.<br /><br />Mark Plus thinks the "transhumorists" (as Athena Andreadis calls them)<br />may have jumped the shark.<br /><br /><br />http://thelifeofmanquamanonearth.blogspot.com/2012/06/dangers-of-geek-culture-to-men-who.html<br />---------------<br />The dangers of geek culture to men who might otherwise have useful lives<br /><br />. . .<br /><br />I encountered. . . a 17-year-old cryonicist with an impaired ability<br />to interpret social cues, this week end at the Venturist Cryonics Conference,<br />and I found the experience eye-rolling. He reminded me of a former coworker,<br />a guy about 40 who had overdosed on comic books; computer games;<br />science fiction, fantasy and horror movies; and on novels in the same<br />genres. I could tell that all the time he wasted on these media didn't<br />prepare him for employability, much less for dealing with life's other<br />practical problems.<br />---------------<br /><br /><br />http://thelifeofmanquamanonearth.blogspot.com/2012/05/i-have-occasional-problem-with-anxiety.html<br />---------------<br />I have an occasional problem with anxiety<br /><br />. . .<br /><br /><br />I've. . . soured on transhumanism after seeing that it has nothing going for it,<br />really, after observing it for the past two decades. . .<br /><br />One, transhumanism tends to distract people from doing useful stuff. The<br />guy back around 1990 who compared FM-2030 to a mime who imitates the motions<br />of a productive worker without doing any work himself, came closer to the<br />truth than he probably knew at the time.<br /><br />And two, transhumanism lacks staying power. We've already entered the "FM who?<br />Extropi-what?" era as people cycle through transhumanism as a fad on the way to<br />middle age and mortality, and I suspect that in another decade we'll see a<br />younger crop of transhumanists who will live in the "Eliezer who?" era as<br />they become enamored of some other transhumanist celebrity no one has heard of yet.jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.com