tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post542075353006157204..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: Robot Cultists on the Bleeding Edge... Between Irrelevance and InfantilismDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-35490357454459505002010-07-03T23:42:46.315-07:002010-07-03T23:42:46.315-07:00My theory is and remains that what you do is not a...My theory is and remains that what you do is not as you say you do.<br /><br />Dale, continue to be off the persuasion you are a hero. I think that in the past you came to an agreement with your fellow IEET friends and concluded 'yes our movement need a vocal, visible critic' ... 'someone unlikeble that would barrage away endlessly against our cause'.<br /><br />After much deliberating it was then decided you to be that screeching raven on the marriage, the whining drunk uncle disturbing the wedding.<br /><br />Dale, day one I read you, I loved you. You are a looker. I got the hots for you just looking at your pics. Damn, IRL I'd go down on my knees and I'd love sucking you off. You are so my type it's scary. But Dale love, I see you. I can smell you. You are scamming the place. I can see it as plainly as the wacom in front of me. <br /><br />Dale you are my HERO. Someone had to do this job, and you do it with flair and charm - being the totally unlikeable half hysterical drooling critic of transhumanism. Thanks Dale. it's a tough job but someone had to do it.<br /><br />Next time I am town wanna meet for coffee?Khanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14191101857598532784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-65565667595593300262010-06-28T20:50:18.041-07:002010-06-28T20:50:18.041-07:00> [W]ish-fulfillment fantasists of superlative ...> [W]ish-fulfillment fantasists of superlative futurology. . .<br />> typically say only two kinds of things -- commonplaces nobody<br />> needs them for and infantile impossibilities nobody in their right<br />> mind should ever take seriously. . . **but most Robot Cultists,<br />> definitively, do**: a superintelligent post-biological<br />> Robot God may be on its way to end history and solve all our<br />> problems for us, our organismic brains can in principle and may<br />> soon in fact literally be "migrated" into cyberspace and this<br />> divestment of the flesh will be a marvelous thing, medical therapies<br />> are surely on the way to afford lucky people superlongevity and<br />> comicbook superpowers, possibly via scooping us up into robot bodies,<br />> constellations of programmed nanobots and software bots in<br />> immersive virtualities might soon deliver us a superabundance in<br />> which our every wish will be granted on the cheap. . .<br /><br />You know, if you squint out of the corner of your eye and<br />perform a mental exercise that the Objectivists call<br />"blanking out" (they consider it a vice), the above can<br />**almost** sound plausible to an SF-and-video-game-loving,<br />computer-nerd techie (young or old).<br /><br />Can it be any worse than the stuff lapped up by the<br />less tech-savvy masses yearning to levitate their ashtrays?<br />(I almost said "trailer trash" but that's not a polite<br />phrase in politically-sensitive circles and besides, the<br />Hollywood types who fall for this stuff are far from<br />trailer trash. Um, mostly. Unless they're channeling<br />Anna Nicole Smith. [Shame on me! Or, as Kathy Griffin<br />would say. "Oooh, that's just **totally** inappropriate!"]).<br /><br /><br />http://thesecret.tv/<br />----------------------------<br />"The Secret reveals the most powerful law in the universe.<br />The knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through<br />the lives and the teachings of all the prophets, seers, sages<br />and saviors in the world's history, and through the lives<br />of all truly great men and women. All that they have ever<br />accomplished or attained has been done in full accordance<br />with this most powerful law. <br /><br />Without exception, every human being has the ability to transform<br />any weakness or suffering into strength, power, perfect peace,<br />health, and abundance."<br /><br /><br />http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Fishman/Xenu/xenu-05.html<br />----------------------------<br />The next T[raining]R[outine] was called "Tone 40 on an object." . . .<br />"Tone 40," the Scientology dictionary explained, was<br />"a positive postulate with no counter-thought expected, anticipated<br />or anything else, that is, total control." <br /><br />George sat beside me and put an ashtray in the chair across from me.<br />I read the instructions in the bulletin. Taking the ashtray in my hands,<br />I shouted in the loudest possible voice, "Stand up!" Then I raised<br />the ashtray off the chair and held it in midair. "Thank you,"<br />I acknowledged the ashtray. "Sit down on that chair!" I shouted,<br />lowering the ashtray back to the chair. "Thank you!" I shouted again. <br /><br />"Not loud enough," George looked at me. "I don't feel your total<br />intention. Theoretically, if you do this drill with complete Tone 40,<br />the ashtray will rise by itself off the table. When you give the commands,<br />you can have no other intention than the commands. You're still<br />somewhat self-conscious." <br /><br />He was right about that. I couldn't believe I was sitting here<br />yelling at an ashtray. . .jimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-40992041266067929662010-06-28T15:07:24.195-07:002010-06-28T15:07:24.195-07:00I am declaring these notions incoherent, I am not ...I am declaring these notions incoherent, I am not quibbling with charlatans about their fraudulent timelines.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-78295928310252569932010-06-28T10:42:49.405-07:002010-06-28T10:42:49.405-07:00Do you consider these things literally impossible ...Do you consider these things literally impossible or merely implausible for the near future?Summerspeakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870660699983182559noreply@blogger.com