“humans are nothing but information-processing objects”
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What liberal billionaires actually think of humans.......
There’s nothing wrong with madly optimistic appraisals of how technology might benefit human society. But the current drive for a post-human utopia is something else. It’s less a vision for the wholesale migration of humanity to a new a state of being than a quest to transcend all that is human: the body, interdependence, compassion, vulnerability, and complexity. As technology philosophers have been pointing out for years, now, the transhumanist vision too easily reduces all of reality to data, concluding that “humans are nothing but information-processing objects”.
It’s a reduction of human evolution to a video game that someone wins by finding the escape hatch and then letting a few of his BFFs come along for the ride. Will it be Musk, Bezos, Thiel … Zuckerberg? These billionaires are the presumptive winners of the digital economy – the same survival-of-the-fittest business landscape that’s fueling most of this speculation to begin with.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/23/tech-industry-wealth-...
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Musk is a liberal?
Musk is a liberal?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: GravyTrain
Thiel is not a liberal.
Thiel is not a liberal.
Jobs had better vision. Probably the doses.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Def. High
Zuckerberg is a Trumper.
Zuckerberg is a Trumper.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Old Fart Message Board
Slight more than just that.
Slight more than just that. Humans are also built to survive, almost programmed initially before any information is developed in the brain.
strange but true.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Old Fart Message Board
Slight more than just that.
Slight more than just that. Humans are also built to survive, almost programmed initially before any information is developed in the brain.
strange but true.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Racketinmyhead
They’re all red. If you had
They’re all red. If you had billions you wouldn’t want the govt taking it either.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: skyjunk
I have always known that I am
I have always known that I am a god, and I will be the first to tell them to ......, well actually fuck them, I’m not telling them shit
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Imagine
The word "liberal" seems to
The word "liberal" seems to have taken on the meaning "anything weird."
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Only for folks like Thom.
Only for folks like Thom.