From: Sabine Atkins (sabine@posthuman.com)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 18:25:23 MDT
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Subject: [The Future of Humanity] Woah, Nellie....Extropian
Response/Critique
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:20:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marc Mello <mame70@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: future9@yahoogroups.com
To: future9@yahoogroups.com
(I snipped the responses he gave regarding humans trying to create a
superhuman artificial intelligence. He basically says that he believes
that this is not possible in our lifetime. And the Singularity is, in
his view, just a substitute for God. The Future9 archive is public. You
can read the whole email and all previous posts on yahoogroups.)
(he puts a > symbol in the beginnings of his responses)
>IN SUMMATION: I find the views of Extropians to be 1]
not new, certainly...2] Misanthropic and technophilic
{lots of irony here: using human technology to
"bypass" human evolution/or transcend 'The
Human'....3]Unintentionally Fascist {How would said
entity[s] treat humans?}.....4] Woefully lacking in a
comprehensive description of what is 'human' {positve
and negative, beneficial, and detrimental}, while it
rushes along eager to 'pave the way' for something
'other-than-human'.....5]Failing to address humanistic
values {try reading the 'Universal Declaration of
Human Rights}, and what these values mean to all
people, not just a few misanthropic folks who are
trying to "out-future" the futurists with a
'post-human' philosophy........
I would love to hear intelligent comments. Thank you,
Marcus M.
:-)
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