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On 11/12/10 6:01 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:natasha@natasha.cc">natasha@natasha.cc</a> wrote:
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cite="mid:20101112210113.pwbx5ppmo0swkkcc@webmail.natasha.cc"
type="cite">Just read it. Cute. Didn't like the issue with
prettiness and found it trite. Liked the acknowledgement that "the
only rule in science is that the final arbiter is the observer".
Enjoyed the part about "the rationalist's version" and enjoyed the
inward dialogue about rationality. I prefer Wikipedia's story
here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality</a> But then maybe I'm not
such a fan of Harry Potter (sorry ... the story is not
consequential enough for me, although the special effects in the
films are great!)</blockquote>
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I'm not that big on Potter myself, but what I like is that he's
actually doing something more <b>explicit</b> to get the
transhumanist meme out there than personal projects pending
publicity. It's definitely doing more than pretentious petty
political pontification. If we don't hang together as
transhumanists, not only will we hang separately but Kass, Rifkin,
McKibben, and their ilk will make look like death by autoerotic
asphyxiation.<br>
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