Wednesday, August 29, 2012

My Exchange With Max More Continues

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Again, upgraded and adapted from the Moot, Max More (now verified) responds: We have provided evidence for the reasonableness of cryonics (a...
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Ayn Raelian Robot Cultist Max More Responds

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Upgraded and adapted from the Moot , "Max More" (conceivably, after all, an online impersonator) said : Predictably you throw arou...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Can-Do Robot Cultist Max More "Chooses" Immortality, Remains Mortal Anyway

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Apparently Ayn Raelian "Extropian" transhumanoid Max More ("Max More," Very Serious!) was offended when Adam Smith concl...
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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Are Techno-Immortalist Robot Cultists the Real "Deathists"?

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In Wake Up, Deathist! You DO Want to Live 10,000 Years! , Robot Cultist Hank Pellissier argues that magic would be cool if it were real as a...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Political Versus "Scientific" Assessments of Robot Cultists

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Upgraded and adapted from the Moot... I ask a Question: Is it even possible to separate assessments of reasonableness from political as...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Futurological Factishness

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From an exchange upgraded and adapted from the Moot to this post, Mitchell said: "nobody has ever been willing (or able) to engage Da...
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Sunday, August 05, 2012

Taxes Are The Price We Pay for a Civilized Society

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Citizens, take pride in a moment of civilization to which you have contributed! All this for less than one half of one percent of the federa...
Saturday, August 04, 2012

An Open Letter To The Robot Cultists --

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Any child of two can indulge in wish fulfillment fantasizing. It's not a philosophy. It's not a movement. And the way you Robot Cult...
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Friday, August 03, 2012

Futurological Defenses of Automation, Outsourcing, Crowdsourcing, Precarizing Labor

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...Until There Is Nobody Left To Buy Anything. You Know, for Profit! How to Work for Free for the Richest Companies in the World : The pat...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Exxon-Mobil's "Geo-Engineering" Discourse Is Just More Futurological Greenwashing

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Also posted at the World Future Society . A speech made by ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson at the Council on Foreign Relations last month ha...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Calling Bullshit on the World's First "Cyborg Hate Crime"

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Surveying the cyberspatial sprawl and the twitterspew on day three of the conversation about performance artist and sousveillance activist S...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Attack on Mann NOT First Attack on a Cyborg

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Very predictably, the futurological dunderheads at Kurzweil are megaphoning the "first attack on a cyborg" angle of the Steve Man...
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Ayn Raelians Should All Go Walt

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When the Ayn Randians whine about how the moochers are getting them down, I say, Go Galt! Enough with the threats already! Begone! Oh, do pl...
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"I Tweet From Basement, Home of Mom": Time For A Cyberspace Manifesto 2.0?

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Also posted at the World Future Society . Given the dot.bomb, the New Economy crash, the outsourcing outrage, the digirati dump, the f...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Pancryptics, My Dissertation Online

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[You come upon a ruin, my friend. Half of this text I would write differently now than I did then, and the other half I would not write at ...
Monday, July 09, 2012

A Comment On "Political Correctness"

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I've been a fly on the wall of a discussion taking place elsewhere, somewhere I am not welcome to contribute but which I still observe i...
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The Reactionary Progress Narrative Coiled Like A Snake Inside Our Commonplace Understanding of "Technology"

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I have had an interesting exchange (upgraded and adapted below) with "Summerspeaker" in the Moot to this post . Summer and I both ...
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Saturday, July 07, 2012

"Am I Going To Become A Cyborg In the Future?"

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Also posted at the World Future Society . Anti-Futurological Answers To Futurological Questions: "Am I Going To Become A Cyborg In th...
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Monday, July 02, 2012

Syllabus for My Summer Intensive on the Rhetoric of Interpretation

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...beginning tomorrow afternoon, is here .
Sunday, June 24, 2012

But Why So Negative?

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This is a reply in an exchange with another critic, this one making the now endlessly familiar complaints that I am not giving people enough...