/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3912100

Nah, I just browse the front page and see if Inurdaes or Mad are there, then go to the archives and search for "colonel" and "transhumanism". If anybody mentions me, I'll drop in out of nowhere, if anyone mentions transhumanism, I'll dump the usual for a while and fend off the trolls.

I don't care whether the Singularity happens or not. It's irrelevant. What matters is that sitting around waiting for an invisible AI to whisk you away to nerdtopia is wish-fulfillment and counter-productive.

>People anticipating practical immortality look at me like some kind of raving mad Luddite when I try to convince them that if they are to have any meaningful chance at truly long term survival, they are going to have to act, work very hard, and have a hell of a lot of luck in the bargain. This sense of complacency isn’t due only to Ray Kurzweil, and it would be very disingenuous to suggest that this is so, Rather, it is the result of a multiplicity of factors, not the least of which are the sense of entitlement which is a side effect of affluenza, coupled with the sad reality that onto two generations of people in the West no longer actually MAKE THINGS, or work with their hands. All of the “dirty” and “hands on business” of wrestling with matter to MAKE it OBEY us, has been shipped away to remote corners of the globe where pathetically ignorant and credulous people have been willing to exchange their blood, sweat and tears (literally) for worthless chits of green paper.