From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 (pgptag@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 02:19:35 MST
I know why I was not able to post my comment to K5 with a new account:
they now ask new users for a one-time 5$ payment to enable comments.
So I posted from an old account that I made a few years ago. Some
others posted, in particular Eugen's comment is very good.
I wish to encourage everyone to post THIS IS BS to K5. In particular
we should make it clear that "nearly all Transhumanists are either
Neocons and Neocon influenced" is BS, and "Since 99.5% of
Transhumanists are white males, they don't care about any of these
issues" is BS. So please, if you have a not too recent K5 account, go
to
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/11/4/132937/255
and say loud and clear THIS IS BS
Of course our friend Dale makes a valiant attempt at a defense saying
something like: yes, the K5 statements are perhaps not entirely
correct, BUT blah blah blah.
http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2007/11/more-on-kuro5shin-discussion.html
With enough clever words and enough hair-splitting one can always hope
to prove that black is white and BS is wisdom, but some simple and
clear thinking usually shows that black is black and BS is BS.
G.
On Nov 5, 2007 9:07 AM, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2007/11/4/132937/255
>
> worth noting the typical crap about "Since 99.5% of Transhumanists are
> white males, they don't care about any of these issues". Of course
> when you tell them that even if you are a white male you DO care about
> all of these issues, they will not believe you. This is just PC crap.
> Sorry my friend the author, I am a transhumanist and I am NOT a
> neocon. Sorry if that does not fit into your dumb black and white
> worldview.
>
> The author also shows the typical lack of appreciation for complexity.
> Aging research is bad because it takes effort away from other things.
> This is BS. If those who dedicated their energy to making the first
> fore had followed the dictates of the PC majority that certainly
> existed also at those times, we would still be eating raw meat.
> Humanity has progressed so far because a wide range of people, each
> with her or his particular interests and sensibilities, have dedicated
> their energy to a wide range of problems.
>
> I wanted to leave this comment to the article but the Kuro5hin system
> does not let me in (perhaps it understands that I am a bad
> transhumanist neocon). Try to leave comments.
>
> G.
>
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