[extropy-chat] All hail Will Wilkinson

[Dirk Bruere]

On 1/6/06, Marc Geddes <marc.geddes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There's already a contest going on here:  First person to create an FAI
> proves that they're the best! ;)
>
> You know I used to think the people on the transhumanist lists were
> ultra-smart but gradually I came to realize that hey, you know, these guys
> aren't actually that good.  There's a lot of one-dimensional ideologies
> being argued for (like Libertarianism or Socialism for instance) or bizarre
> intellectual blind-spots.  I think rationality, imagination and empirical
> knowledge ultimately wins out over raw IQ.  The only person on the lists
> that's really any good is Eliezer but even he is not *that* good: my
> impression that a REAL transhuman would still eat that Eliezer pussy for
> breakfast (intellectually)  and as for everyone else, a real transhuman
> would find their arguments so laughable that it wouldn't even bother to
> respond ;)
>
> No one here but me spotted the three time dimensions (which believe me to
> a real transhuman will be the most friggin obvious thing in the world) nor
> did any one here but me spot 7-aspect monism (the 7 fundamental properties
> making up the deep structure of reality).  Like I said, no offense, but you
> guys just ain't that good.
>
> Time for Eli and the rest to face REAL transhuman awareness (well, not
> really but pseudo transhuman-awareness at least).  Let's see how he fares.
> This is gonna be funny.  Wanna see me kick some super-genius arse? ;)
>
> Let the games commence:
> http://www.agiri.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=108
>
>
Theories are ten a penny.
Show us some novel tech deriving from it, then we'll take notice.

Dirk
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