[extropy-chat] Transhumanism and Ayn Rand

[Marc Geddes]

*sigh*

Another cult to add to the list (Objectivism).

You know a person reading on the net or hanging out
with high IQ folks can be inundated with bullshit if
one is not careful.  The amount of bullshit I've had
to cut though in the couple of years since I came to
the transhumanist lists is unbelieveable and more and
more bullshit just keeps popping up all the time.  The
trouble is that there are some really powerful, almost
hypnotic personalities in the transhumanist movement,
and if one is not careful one can be mesmerized.

Here are my current opinions of various ideologies and
positions advocated or mentioned by people on the
transhumanist lists over the years:

*Socialism
BULLSHIT

*Libertarianism
BULLSHIT

*Objectivism
BULLSHIT

*Terrence Mckenna
BULLSHIT

*ESP
BULLSHIT

*The Singularity Institutes AI Design
BULLSHIT

*World destroying unfriendly AI
BULLSHIT

*True general intelligence without qualia
BULLSHIT

*Vitamin/Dietary supplements
BULLSHIT

*Caloric restriction

Not entirely bullshit, but effect in humans so small
that it may as well be
BULLSHIT

*Significant advances in life extension in the next 20
years
BULLSHIT

*Materialism
BULLSHIT

*Supernaturalism
BULLSHIT





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