[extropy-chat] Irritated, frustrated and fed up with messageboards

[Marc Geddes]

What a load of old cobblers regularly gets posted on the messageboards of transhumanist organizations!  I am totally fed with with messageboards.

 

(By the way this messageboard is about the only transhumanist board left I haven't pissed everyone off enough to get moderated yet.)

 

The biggest load of tosh I've ever seen came out of the SL4 lists and 'Singularity Institute':

 
Philosophical absurdity after philosophical absurdity piled up on SL4....like the claim that you have general intelligence without sentience, like the claim that a paper-clip maximizer can recursively self-improve, like the inability to see that just because high-level concepts are *dependent on* i.e supervene on low-level physics this doesn't mean these high level concepts are completely *reducible* to low-level physics, like the idea that a complete causal description is the same as complete understanding, like the inability to see the difference between a theoretical ideal and what practically works, like lack of the most rudimentary awareness of mathematics... infinite set atheism for instance.... *sigh* .... the list of brazen fallacies posted on SL4 has almost driven me insane with frustration.
 
And then there's all the political tripe.  Libertarian and Socialist ideology just makes me want to puke by now.
 
That's all I wanted to say.
 
Thanks.
 
 


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