[ExI] A Transhumanist Terrorist Manifesto

Sun May 13 14:52:06 UTC 2007

FWIW, I repudiate this manifesto. For those interested in reading one  
brain builder's opinion on the likelihood that this issue becomes  
Humanity's next defining war, check out:  Hugo De Garis's "The Artilect  
War"  
http://www.amazon.com/Artilect-War-Controversy-Concerning-Intelligent/ 
dp/0882801538/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-5662240-2912612? 
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179067783&sr=8-1

Josh Cowan
On May 13, 2007, at 10:06 AM, John Grigg wrote:

> I just want to state how much I agree with Samantha's wise words.   
> Back in the day she would have made a good "Founding Mother" for the  
> American colonies. : )  Regarding the manifesto, I will say there is  
> definitely a certain anarchic "devil may care, machismo charm" about  
> it.  As I read I thought it sounded like something straight out of a  
> Bruce Sterling or Walter Jon Williams novel.  And if it's not it sure  
> should be! lol  Either of those authors could take this manifesto and  
> build around it a terrific science fiction novel of wonder,  
> intensity, terror and suspense.   
> What worries me is that I could see foolishly impressionable people  
> down the road (a single year or maybe a whole century from now...)  
> taking these words to heart and really raising hell in a way  
> remincient of the Italian Red Brigade.  Now that these words are on  
> the net and "out there" we may in time have to deal with the  
> consequences.  And of course the other worry is that the mass media  
> will grab hold of it and claim this represents the "real"  
> Transhumanist movement.  I spent the last two days at LepreCon 33 and  
> I'm probably just letting my overly primed imagination (I went to lots  
> of writers panels) get away from me.
>  
> Best,
>  
> John Grigg
>
> Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>> Many of us preach freedom to choose the future that we want, freedom  
>> to
>> implement it, to augment ourselves and so on. Some teach that the Way
>> is to sell transhumanism to the masses and have them demand it of the
>> State or simply have the State be ultimate all controlling elite that
>> mandates it "for our own good". Others, like myself, believe that only
>> in preserving sufficient freedom from the ever-increasing control of  
>> the
>> State can the elite, the fore-runners possibly have room to succeed.
>> But this view does not require blowing sh*t up nor does it require an
>> attitude of contempt to humanity at large. It may require some level  
>> of
>> violence sometime to fight the loss of freedom. But not violence for
>> the hell of it as this piece seems to advocate. Violence is the last
>> resort when all other means to preserve freedom to live and pursue  
>> one's
>> goals have been exhausted. Much can and should be done imho at the
>> level if you will of cyber-anarchy, using technology to step beyond  
>> the
>> control of the State to the degree possible and foreseeably necessary.
>> The day may come where the dark nets and underground economies are all
>> that stands between us and the oblivion of total subservience to the
>> State and collapse of much we take for granted.
>>
>> - samantha
>>
>>
>> kevin.osborne wrote:
>> > Sick of the brain-curdling slowness of socio-technological progress?
>> > Think existential risk is just a plain lack of cojones?
>> > Like blowing shit up?
>> >
>> > Then the Transhumanist Terrorist Manifesto is for you.
>> >
>> > 1. Fuck the state. Fuck the leadership. Fuck 'consensus'. It's our
>> > future they are micromanaging to death with their overcautiousness,
>> > and it's time to start shrugging off their anachronistic control
>> > mechanisms and seizing our destiny before it dies by committee.
>> > Nation-states and the current socio-economic model are toast after  
>> the
>> > nano-revolution anyway; lets start acting like the hyperbeings we  
>> will
>> > one day be. The Singularity will confer unheralded power to those  
>> who
>> > have the will to grasp it - are you ready to dump the baggage?
>> >
>> > 2. Screw the sheep. Chances are you're smarter than everyone else
>> > already. If you're reading a transhumanist feed, you're already kind
>> > of special. Soon enough though, you can be more. Much more. The
>> > simpering idiots and halfwits who dominate the zeitgeist of our
>> > society are only going to get yet more stupid as we get smarter. If  
>> we
>> > want to be H+, we will be. Our soon-to-be subhuman cohorts are smug
>> > and self satisfied, thinking they are wonderful human beings while
>> > they lay waste to our potential with their bovine lack of horizon,
>> > paucity of ideas and lack of bloodymindedness.
>> >
>> > 3. Eat the future. Get hungry. Take it, it's yours. Want to
>> > gene-splice yourself? Go ahead. Want to engineer a nano-horde? Go
>> > ahead. Embryonic stem cells? Eat the goddamn fetus with bacon on
>> > toast. Harvest a botnet. Sequence a meta-virus. Synthesize a
>> > nootropic. Chip yourself, augment yourself, mainline yourself,
>> > digitize yourself, clone yourself.
>> >
>> > 4. Unfriendly AI? You fricken bet. Bring on the arms race. If we  
>> can't
>> > live forever, maybe our nasty little friend here can. Metasploit the
>> > net. All your megahurtz will belong to us. Borg-in' ain't easy.
>> >
>> > 5. Screw DDoS, how about we just pwn your servers with AK47's and
>> > glycerin. Send big brother dark. Take down the camera network. Go
>> > wireless, go ad-hoc, steal every channel you can OFDM. Root DNS? No
>> > way. Route via P2P. Swarm, baby, swarm. Self-organise. Latch on,
>> > leech, and suck like a parasite.
>> >
>> > 6. Slavery didn't die without a whimper. The French Revolution  
>> didn't
>> > happen without the guillotine. Occupying powers generally need to be
>> > fed bullets until they leave. Burn flags. Bomb monuments.  
>> Assassinate.
>> >
>> > 7. This ain't the 'Wiggles' manifesto here. If you want change, make
>> > it happen. Go nasty, go early and go often. Punch 'em square in the
>> > face, dare them to retaliate. Outgunned? throw the first punch,  
>> below
>> > the belt, while their back is turned. Dominate the weak. Take what  
>> you
>> > want. Expand voraciously. Eat your young. You've heard the
>> > transhumanist leaders and their oh-so-softly approach. They can have
>> > their patronage, consideration and kindness. We are under no such
>> > obligations. We do not have to play by their rules. They can take
>> > their toys and go home. We are here, in the dark, growing and
>> > yearning. It is our future too. We will not be controlled. We will  
>> not
>> > be instructed. We will learn, we will siphon, we will steal. We will
>> > transcend. Try and stop us at your peril.
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