[extropy-chat] transhumanist nut jobs

[Robert Bradbury]

On 7/14/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> - Bijal P. Trivedi
>


A more interesting question might be "who is Bijal Trivedi?"

A google turns up a *lot* of articles, generally about various branches of
Science in many relatively serious journals (more serious than Wired).  So
the "fault" may not be so much with the Wired editors (Are there editors who
actually really *know* anything about anything?) as it would be with the
author.  But if Bijal is coming from a "classical" scientific framework then
one has to wonder whether the "nutjobs" comment is from him or was added by
the editors?  (Serious science writers don't usually use such terms.)

Then one gets into a long discussion as to whether the magazine is trying to
promote useful debate and/or accelerate the rate of progress or simply sell
issues/advertising?  (Witness the recent de Grey v. Estep debate in
Technology Review where the editors seemed to go back and forth on the topic
of lifespan extension engineering -- it hasn't been pointed out here but has
been pointed out on the GRG list and on the sites maintained by several who
read this list.

Robert
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