tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post4618176554249528626..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Scattered Speculations on Superlative Technocentrisms and Sub(cult)ural FuturismsDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-47435557375636700612007-09-27T03:48:00.000-07:002007-09-27T03:48:00.000-07:00Dale,I gotta wonder why you waste your time with t...Dale,<BR/><BR/>I gotta wonder why you waste your time with that guy. He and the Singularitarians appear to be completely 'tone-deaf' as to how they are coming across to most of the world. Believe you me, the Singularitarians are headed for a bad end. Thank goodness I got out of the train before the wreck.<BR/><BR/>MA (and the other 'Singualaritarians') are elitest little snots who haven't the faintest idea what 'intelligence' is (or much real-world understanding of anything for that matter).<BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>Blinding white lights and lurid tales of total revolution are totally unhelpful to any-one. Super-intelligence is of absolutely no relevence to our daily lives in the here-and-now. Don't engage with or respond to crack-pots and cultists who consistently talk down to you, or attempt to patronize you. <BR/><BR/>---<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, I know longer play by the 'rules' of the 'Singularitarians'. My big mistake was to attempt to compete on their terms - in the narrow little frame they defined as 'rationality' - ie super-high IQ, Bayesian math, people who can manipulate narowally defined deductive and inductive math arguments, people who think exactly like them. <BR/><BR/>But of course that was what they wanted. No surprise the average bloke can't win a contest on the battlefield they carefully, narrowly and cleverly tried to channel their opposition for the fight.<BR/><BR/>Once I switched the frame to *my* style of thought though... once I started reasoning *my way* (in the language of communication, representation, ontology, metaphor and direct experience - the REAL language of reflection) I superceded their Bayesian bullshit and entered a rich new and extraordinary realm - a realm based, not on *causal relations* and *probability*, but on *archetypes* and *possibility*, a realm I'm a fluent in, a natural in, a battlefield on which Yudkowsky, Anissimov and co can't win, can't even see, appear to be blind and deaf to. <BR/><BR/>Bottom-line: The 'Singularitarians' are already goners. They're simply irrelevant to the coming new world.ZARZUELAZENhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07742429508206464486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-638879520275020162007-09-27T00:24:00.000-07:002007-09-27T00:24:00.000-07:00Speaking to your argument that tech-progressive is...Speaking to your argument that tech-progressive is going/has gone/is mainstream, literally the day after I start reading a blog on fat acceptance <A HREF="http://laurietobyedison.com/discuss/?p=432" REL="nofollow">the writer posts about genetic selection techniques in IVF and reprogenetics</A>, referencing betterhumans in the process. I found it really interesting.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283691507814335848noreply@blogger.com