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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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Sorry for the off topic Dale but I ran across this on Gizmodo and thought you'd get a weary giggle from it.
http://gizmodo.com/why-i-m-running-for-president-as-the-transhumanist-cand-1702639745
I devoted a paragraph to laughing at him on this topic last year: http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2014/10/dumb-dvorsky-faces-reality-throws.html
Perhaps a more extended lampoon is called for. We have occasionally sparred on twitter. Robot Cultists can always be counted on for shits and giggles.
While we're at it, anybody else feeling down now that Gizmodo too is overrun by the mind-cancer after stealth transhumanist (or at the very least, big time sympathizer) Newitz has been made head honcho?
So much for progress.
> I devoted a paragraph to laughing at him. . . last year. . .
>
> Robot Cultists can always be counted on for shits and giggles.
How dare you sneer at your betters, you, you sneering sneerer, you?
http://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/113930168256/some-people-have-questioned-the-term-sneer
(as cited in
http://yudkowsky.tumblr.com/post/113984493300/on-sneer-culture
http://argumate.tumblr.com/post/113943373634
http://su3su2u1.tumblr.com/post/113937480588/slatestarscratchpad-snip-when-i-think-of-sneer
and everyelsewhere; I gather that the term "sneer culture" may
have originated as a counter-reaction to criticism
of the fanfic "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality"
[e.g. http://su3su2u1.tumblr.com/tagged/Hariezer-Yudotter/chrono ]
and I suspect -- I don't know -- may well have been coined
by the fanfictor hisself. )
Oh cruel, cruel world!
(Hey, have all the cool kids migrated from Reddit to Tumblr?
I thought it was just good for porn. ;-> ).
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