[ExI] No link between original and copy? Denied!

Alan Grimes agrimes at speakeasy.net
Fri Oct 29 03:14:31 UTC 2010


chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> This is the classical uploading debate.

I'm sick to death of your patronizing drivel, all of you, especially
you, chrome://messenger!!!


In the past few weeks I've made a terrible mistake. My mistake is that
I've allowed myself to, once again, be sucked into the uploading debate.
My error is that by allowing myself to do so, I become framed and
defined by that debate -- as the person who is against uploading. It's
the same error atheists make when they define themselves as being
against the belief in god. (Obviously Pastafarianism is the only true
religion). By doing so, the atheists give the church power, and I have
been giving feeding into the uploader's domination of transhumanism.

My message is that I need a new transhumanism, a transhumanism that
embraces all possibilities, not just ones that relate to destructive
brain uploading. I will accomplish nothing by replying to your drivel,
(which I read to the letter), therefore I won't. You are a victim of a
viscous con and won't see the error of your ways even after you're dead
and copied.

I have come to realize that the people who are suceptable to this con
are the exact people I don't need.

What I do need, is a group of equally dedicated people who are willing
to at least pretend to be totally committed to some equally absurd idea.
I hope that they can counter balance the almighty roar of pro-uploading
devotees that we're now witnessing.


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