[ExI] A Transhumanist Terrorist Manifesto

[Richard Loosemore]

I see a few problems with this:

1) If it is a joke, it is no joke.

2) Even if it were a good idea, it would not be a good idea.

3) It is not a good idea.

A little more detail on (3), in case you needed it.  The strategy of 
"I'm not getting my way, and I cannot even see any way to get my way, so 
I will smash something, because at least smashing something will make me 
feel better" is a subhuman tendency.  Doesn't actually work.


Richard Loosemore.



kevin.osborne wrote:
> Sick of the brain-curdling slowness of socio-technological progress?
> Think existential risk is just a plain lack of cojones?
> Like blowing shit up?
> 
> Then the Transhumanist Terrorist Manifesto is for you.
> 
> 1. Fuck the state. Fuck the leadership. Fuck 'consensus'. It's our
> future they are micromanaging to death with their overcautiousness,
> and it's time to start shrugging off their anachronistic control
> mechanisms and seizing our destiny before it dies by committee.
> Nation-states and the current socio-economic model are toast after the
> nano-revolution anyway; lets start acting like the hyperbeings we will
> one day be. The Singularity will confer unheralded power to those who
> have the will to grasp it - are you ready to dump the baggage?
> 
> 2. Screw the sheep. Chances are you're smarter than everyone else
> already. If you're reading a transhumanist feed, you're already kind
> of special. Soon enough though, you can be more. Much more. The
> simpering idiots and halfwits who dominate the zeitgeist of our
> society are only going to get yet more stupid as we get smarter. If we
> want to be H+, we will be. Our soon-to-be subhuman cohorts are smug
> and self satisfied, thinking they are wonderful human beings while
> they lay waste to our potential with their bovine lack of horizon,
> paucity of ideas and lack of bloodymindedness.
> 
> 3. Eat the future. Get hungry. Take it, it's yours. Want to
> gene-splice yourself? Go ahead. Want to engineer a nano-horde? Go
> ahead. Embryonic stem cells? Eat the goddamn fetus with bacon on
> toast. Harvest a botnet. Sequence a meta-virus. Synthesize a
> nootropic. Chip yourself, augment yourself, mainline yourself,
> digitize yourself, clone yourself.
> 
> 4. Unfriendly AI? You fricken bet. Bring on the arms race. If we can't
> live forever, maybe our nasty little friend here can. Metasploit the
> net. All your megahurtz will belong to us. Borg-in' ain't easy.
> 
> 5. Screw DDoS, how about we just pwn your servers with AK47's and
> glycerin. Send big brother dark. Take down the camera network. Go
> wireless, go ad-hoc, steal every channel you can OFDM. Root DNS? No
> way. Route via P2P. Swarm, baby, swarm. Self-organise. Latch on,
> leech, and suck like a parasite.
> 
> 6. Slavery didn't die without a whimper. The French Revolution didn't
> happen without the guillotine. Occupying powers generally need to be
> fed bullets until they leave. Burn flags. Bomb monuments. Assassinate.
> 
> 7. This ain't the 'Wiggles' manifesto here. If you want change, make
> it happen. Go nasty, go early and go often. Punch 'em square in the
> face, dare them to retaliate. Outgunned? throw the first punch, below
> the belt, while their back is turned. Dominate the weak. Take what you
> want. Expand voraciously. Eat your young. You've heard the
> transhumanist leaders and their oh-so-softly approach. They can have
> their patronage, consideration and kindness. We are under no such
> obligations. We do not have to play by their rules. They can take
> their toys and go home. We are here, in the dark, growing and
> yearning. It is our future too. We will not be controlled. We will not
> be instructed. We will learn, we will siphon, we will steal. We will
> transcend. Try and stop us at your peril.