[extropy-chat] C.S. Lewis's Answers to 21st Century Transhumanism

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Damien Broderick wrote:
>>For the rational Christian, it is tempting
>>to dismiss these individuals as nothing
>>more than the lunatic fringe.
> 
> Right. For the rational Christian--who holds firm to his or her 
> conviction that invisible ghosts are inserted into foetuses, that the 
> Infinite Creator of the entire cosmos had a human son whose mother 
> remained a virgin, that this same God is actually manifested in the 
> form of a piece of dry bread, that humans who act wickedly will 
> suffer intolerably forever after their deaths --these transhumanists 
> who expect the continued development of science to allow people 
> extremely extended healthy and enhanced life must surely seem like 
> lunatics from the fringe. After all, who could believe *that* kind of 
> nonsense?

What is the use of publishing a searing rebuttal to a transhumanist 
mailing list where no one believes the original article anyway?

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence