[p2p-research] Drone hacking

[Andy Robinson]

> I realize that I am goring sacred cows, to mix a metaphor, but only in
> the sense that evolutionary biologists do the same with respect to
> Biblical Creationists.

Actually closer to what Creationists are doing to evolutionists, i.e.
setting up a tenuous theory based on exaggerated readings of dubious or
incomplete data, and then pretending it is conclusively proven and falsifies
all the things which serious specialists take as more-or-less definite.  Not
that there's anything wrong with trying to rebut widely-accepted views, but
posing as a heroic rebel upsetting other people's dearly-held orthodoxies
doesn't make your arguments any more accurate.

Also, the idea of a hidden intelligence manipulating and predicting
everything we do without us knowing it, with a thinking power so far in
excess of humanity's that it will be able to do things which are absolutely
incomprehensible to us, would not be entirely foreign to Biblical
Creationists - though it has more in common with this guy:.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Malebranche#Vision_in_God

And again, supercomputers which take on a godlike role is not uncommon in
sci-fi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_in_fiction#Hitchhiker.27s_Guide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquisitor_%28Red_Dwarf%29
Not to mention certain techno-utopias.
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewnews.php?id=70867
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