tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post5960954002113966712..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: This! Changes! Everything! The Impoverished Transhumanoid Vision of Freedom and ChangeDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-76360709191805016952012-06-20T11:10:07.567-07:002012-06-20T11:10:07.567-07:00> If you are referring to the guru-wannabes wit...> If you are referring to the guru-wannabes with the Robot Cult,<br />> you'll forgive me but I don't think any of them exhibit more<br />> than quotidian intelligence. . .<br /><br />The Thinkers:<br />http://intelligenceexplosion.com/people.htmljimfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04975754342950063440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-30062030196065461242012-06-17T19:47:31.162-07:002012-06-17T19:47:31.162-07:00I know what you mean, and of course there is some ...I know what you mean, and of course there is some truth in it. But I want to defend the contrary that there has NEVER been a technical discovery or a developed technology that has been a "game changer," and that it is always the significance which humans attach and the uses to which humans put these techniques and artifacts which have been historically decisive. <br /><br />Again, don't get me wrong, I know that there is truth in the perspective you defend here. But I honestly believe that there is at least as much, and I suspect probably more, truth in mine. <br /><br />And I also believe that your view is a widely prevalent one while mine is a comparatively neglected one in our epoch of reductionism and triumphalism (neither of which I attribute to you in proffering the claim, by the way), and hence it deserves a compensatory spotlight!Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-3630243848344768472012-06-17T17:33:58.209-07:002012-06-17T17:33:58.209-07:00Some technologies have been what they call "g...Some technologies have been what they call "game changers," but not always in a good (i.e. equity-in-diversity) way. Computers, I think, have been a game-changer in a good way mainly because they have become dirt cheap, but we'll see whether data mining and Big Data techniques trickle down to the rest of us. Cars (at least in hindsight) have been a disaster. You should consider yourself lucky to live in the Bay Area. I'm stuck in the Detroit suburbs where even extravagances such as cars have become a <a href="http://n8chz.blogspot.com/2011/03/necessity-creep.html" rel="nofollow">"necessity."</a>Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.com