From: Sehkenenra (Sehkenenra@netzero.net)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 16:13:37 MDT
>> As perhaps one of the earlier visionaries of the Singularity he
speculated
>> that man would either be driven mad by it or seek solace in a new Dark
>> Age. Reading the interview, and the lack thereof of coherent argument to
Maxs’
>> logic, both seem to be a definite possibility.
>
>Well, just like Nietzsche he is a great source of quotes and inspiration
>for transhumanism, but his philosophy might not be a good foundation for
>a transhumanist philosophy. Essentially he was a nihilist (at least
>according to a paper by a friend on his ideas), and many of the things
>he considered utterly horrible and sanity-destroying is what we would
>consider fairly acceptable today. I doubt mankind would go mad if it
>encountered multidmensional aliens today.
One author I once read referred to Lovecraft's philosophy (amusingly) as
"futilitarianism". I like it.
-Nicq MacDonald
Vice-President, Democrats for Cthulhu
PS- What a great list of quotes... I might have to e-mail the writers of
several of them for permission to use them as the introduction to some
sections of the roleplaying "game" (read: bundle of extropropoganda)
"Identity: Transhuman" that I and a friend of mine currently have in the
works....
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