It ought to be telling that people who are intelli...

2007-10-01T13:59:00.000-07:00

It ought to be telling that people who are intelligent or creative in business or entrepreneurial endeavors; who should be (in a zero-sum world that most people believe in) having the most to lose by increasing the number of intelligent people and machines in the world, thereby decreasing the value of individual intelligence, are the ones who are speaking out in favor of cognitive enhancement and AI.

But then it ought to be apparant that the Canadian/American FTA and NAFTA did not lead to the apocalypse that was predicted and that Communism does not work.

People are unwilling to accept anything that challenges their definitions of "compassion," "fairness," "equality" and "common sense" (theocrats and totalitarians would add "order," "security," "morality" etc.) They will resist such challenges by reality to the point of accepting a world where each one of these same values is crushed to preserve the beliefs that the definitions are based on.

The solution is the promotion of intelligence. Whether it is human enhancement (which is basically what education is to start with), AI, or more intelligent forms of societal organization, intelligence allows assumptions to be challenged and mistakes to be learned from. The expansion of intelligence is at around equal importance to the promotion of freedom.

That quote about creating a slave class is the sam...

2007-09-28T21:43:00.000-07:00

That quote about creating a slave class is the same type of unethical crap motivating the left-wing bioluddites.

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It ought to be telling that people who are intelli...

That quote about creating a slave class is the sam...