[extropy-chat] Recipe for Destruction

[Dirk Bruere]

On 10/19/05, Joel Peter William Pitt <joel.pitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/19/05, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Fine - you mindlink with a whole load of Moslem and Xian fundies, plus a
> > few Leon Kass' and you think something good will come out of the mix because
> > your oh-so-rational Transhumanist meme will triumph? You're the one living
> > in a fantasy land if you believe that.
>
>
> Hey, we *are* transhumanists. Most people think we are living in a fantasy
> land :P
>
> The only thing mass indicriminate mind-mind link will achieve is stupidity
> > and self delusion on a scale as yet unseen.
> >
>
> I'm curious why?
> Is this just a hunch or do you have some psychological reasoning behind
> this?
>

Why do you think that one genius linking with ten morons will result in
anything better than eleven slightly less dumb morons acting in concert? Why
should rationality win if it's a minority sport?

You think better decisions can be made by 100m people all voting on an
issue?

Dirk
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