Wow! that was a great presentation. And a great Q&A session, too.
I could make a lot of comments, but I will limit to one short, comedic comment.
I've noticed Matt's remark about the impossibility of the Bakuninists to organize anything, because they start from an anti-authoritarian and anti-hierarchical position. Not super-funny. I can do it funnier, I think. Here it comes: no one should fear the game B geeks and their delusions, because if they are anarchists, then they cannot organize anything, and the project will fail; and if they are not anarchists, then the monster they are creating in piecemeal way, will destroy them, as monsters tend to do. A real world example: the monstrous form of government called "liberal democracy" attacked and destroyed the classical liberals one hundred years ago. (See? that's very funny, at least for philosophy nerds)
So, we can just safely laugh at the clueless technocratic geeks and their tragic future, and how they waste away their lives with apocalyptic nonsense from Kurzweil or any other antisocial sci-fi author.
Wow! that was a great presentation. And a great Q&A session, too.
I could make a lot of comments, but I will limit to one short, comedic comment.
I've noticed Matt's remark about the impossibility of the Bakuninists to organize anything, because they start from an anti-authoritarian and anti-hierarchical position. Not super-funny. I can do it funnier, I think. Here it comes: no one should fear the game B geeks and their delusions, because if they are anarchists, then they cannot organize anything, and the project will fail; and if they are not anarchists, then the monster they are creating in piecemeal way, will destroy them, as monsters tend to do. A real world example: the monstrous form of government called "liberal democracy" attacked and destroyed the classical liberals one hundred years ago. (See? that's very funny, at least for philosophy nerds)
So, we can just safely laugh at the clueless technocratic geeks and their tragic future, and how they waste away their lives with apocalyptic nonsense from Kurzweil or any other antisocial sci-fi author.