From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Sun Mar 31 2002 - 08:48:34 MST
At 04:49 PM 3/31/2002 +1000, Colin Hales wrote:
>Damien Broderick...........
> >
> > I respect Ray Kurzweil's recent PR efforts, but I have to say it bothered
> > me a lot to read the EDGE essay where he says with a straight face:
> >
> > < We are entering a new era. I call it "the Singularity." >
> >
>
>This blatant sequestration really pissed me off and has coloured Kurzweil in
>my eyes for good. (I got visions of him copying chemistry experiment results
>from fellow students - not a good look).
>
>I only hope that in 'trojan-horsing' post/transhuman issues into a wider
>mainstream audience (via edge.org), some good comes of it and that he
>doesn't screw it up for the rest of us in the eyes of people who really
>matter in the long run. I did wonder whether Dr More and Mr Kurzweil had
>been doing some back room spin-doctoring, but I'll defer to occam on that.
How did I come into this? You were discussing Ray's EDGE essay, which has
nothing to do with me. Explain what you mean by my "back room
spin-doctoring". If you're going to imply that I did something underhand,
you'd better put up or shut up.
Max
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Strategic Philosopher
President, Extropy Institute. http://www.extropy.org <more@extropy.org>
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