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mircea_popescu: In
the mid-1970s F.M. Esfandiary legally[5] changed his name
to FM-2030 for
two main reasons. Firstly,
to reflect
the hope and belief
that he would live
to celebrate his 100th birthday in 2030
decimation: asciilifeform: hey,
they have a research program
decimation: of course all of
them would dismiss
the YHWH worshipping Jews and Christians as credulous simpletons
mircea_popescu: "Extropy also attempts
to describe
the nature of
the order, so a crystal , although highly ordered would have low extropy, but an organism or machine would have high extropy because of
the informational structure contained within it. "
mircea_popescu: god im sick of fucktarded usians giving
their name
to random items.
mircea_popescu: "Extropy is a proposed opposing concept
to entropy. As entropy decreases , signifying more order, so extropy would increase in
the manner of negentropy."
mircea_popescu: Founder of
the Extropy Institute, Max More has written many articles espousing
the philosophy of
transhumanism and
the
transhumanist philosophy of extropy,[6] most importantly his Principles of Extropy (currently version 3.11)
decimation: their produt is 'pay attention
to meee'
mircea_popescu: "Max More (born Max
T. O'Connor, January 1964) is a philosopher and futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on advanced decision-making about emerging
technologies."
trinque: asciilifeform: yudkowski even invented
the beast or satan or w/e,
that AI
that resolves
to abuse your eternal soul forever if you oppose it
mircea_popescu: "Influenced by seminal works of science fiction,
the
transhumanist vision of a
transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives." aaahahahaha
mircea_popescu: basically
this is scientology bahai ? do
they speak esperanto ?
mircea_popescu: "This hypothesis would lay
the intellectual groundwork for
the British philosopher Max More
to begin articulating
the principles of
transhumanism as a futurist philosophy in 1990 and organizing in California an intelligentsia
that has since grown into
the worldwide
transhumanist movement."
trinque: there's gotta be a damn circuit for
this shit in
the head
trinque: someday we will be caught up in
the heavens with white robes, and our bodies will be purified
mircea_popescu: maybe humanity could go
to
transyale and get a
transphd ?
mircea_popescu: check it out lmao, an international cultural and intellectual "movement"
that aspires
to one day... label soemthing!
mircea_popescu: "The most common
thesis put forward is
that human beings may eventually be able
to
transform
themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as
to merit
the label posthuman."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how
the world works. "nobody's using bitcoin, nobody could have foreseen
their using a plane as a rocket and nobody's doing anything better nor anything better could exist
than ... you know, raising awareness"
mircea_popescu: "This article is about
the futurist ideology and movement. For
the critique of humanism, see posthumanism. For
the pattern of seasonal migration, see
transhumance. For persons experiencing incongruence between
their actual gender and
the gender assigned
to
them at birth, see
trans man,
trans woman, and
transgender." << best part imo.
mircea_popescu: why so shy you know ? what's wrong with "Transhumanism is
Thiel's stab at b-a. He
thinks Omidyar's stab at qntra failed for reasons unrelated."
mircea_popescu: "Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally
transforming
the human condition by developing and making widely available
technologies
to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities."
mircea_popescu: even patently retarded stuff like "Smart contracts" seem preferable by
that experience.
mircea_popescu: once people
try
to be run by a bureaucracy however... god help'em.
trinque: so happens
the fan of bureaucracy was female
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mircea_popescu: for as long as bureaucracy =
the slaves of peter, or julius, or w/e,
that may well work.
mircea_popescu: the other
thing is : bureaucracy makes an excellent woman and an applaing man.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the computer of meat approach may well explain why it sucks so bad since 1900s. not a bad heuristic.
trinque: I recall
the self-licking ice cream cone metaphor
trinque: but doing
the accumulation as a good in itself seems
to be where
the insanity lies?
mircea_popescu: voltaire was a great fan, what are you
talking about ?
trinque: I can see
the point; a space is declared within which rules and processes accumulate
decimation: voltaire, et al weren't exactly fans of
the ancien regime
mircea_popescu: sorta like how wolves would make excellent guard dogs, if only
they stopped going and killing all
the sheep and stayed at
the fucking door instead.
mircea_popescu: trinque bureaucracy has its uses.
the problem is
that
the context it'd be useful in and
the context in which it
thrives are so wildly divorced.
decimation: mircea_popescu: but many of
the folks in
that wot ended up
throwing derps into
the woodchipper
trinque: I don't know much about rousseau, except
that I recall him being mentioned by someone who was arguing bureaucracy was
the greatest of all human inventions, and
this with utter seriousness
mircea_popescu: (the Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts, et des metiers. was essentially a b-a of
the
time fork of human knowledge of
the
time. it was wildly successful in spite of being mostly wrong)
mircea_popescu: nonsense
through and
through, but whadda ya want, encyclopedists, ie
transhumanists v1.0
trinque: mircea_popescu: sounded like a nothing
term
to me, meaning "accept
that
this is so"
mircea_popescu: god isn't
the first warrior anymore, which all other warriors owe fealty
too, god is now
the first contract which all contracts are derived fro
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trinque: PeterL: I was looking for a definition of
the phrase
mircea_popescu: markov how, all
the dude was
talking about before were genius biznis ideas and stuff.
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah he was ringing my markov model
too
mod6: i
think
that's mostly my
testing +
taxation
decimation: look under
the 'security groups' column in your instance
decimation: mod6: you gotta
turn off
the firewall in aws/ec2
Luke-Jr: anyhow, wife demands me in bed, so
ttyl
trinque: Luke-Jr: yep, gotta enable
things in
the security group
brendafdez fucked it, I
thought it was Luke-Jr saying
that shit.