This guy is more worthy of our attention than the kid whose daddy paid for him to go to almost space.
I.e if a physicist pretended only Newtonian physics existed, they would be laughed at, or if biologists ignored modern genetics and reverted to animalculism... you can't simply pretend the 19th and 20th centuries don't exist. challenging them, wanting to move beyond them, that's OK (I may not agree), but forcing us all to live in a theme park where it's always 1740 does not benefit anyone.
Analytics basically try to create a walled garden or Disney-style theme park where Hegel (and by extension Marx) never existed... ruled by the 18th-century God (the the 'rational economic actor', the 'free thinking individual', the res cogitans, the Kantian transcendental subject etc.) it's one thing to vigorously oppose important thinkers but to simply ignore them is intellectual dishonesty. And the real reason is neoliberalism and its hegemony over American institutions
uphill battle to convince transhumanists that we really should drop analytic philosophy, as its founding assumptions lead to cishumanism. instead we should read continental thinkers such as Leroi-Gourhan, Canguilhem, Simondon, Deleuze, Stiegler, Haraway, Stengers, Vivieros de Castro... Somehow the latter get labeled 'Posthumanist' thinkers. the point is the 'good' transhumanism is already posthumanism. and we need convergence, especially on behalf of those developing technologies.
@GrayGhost *nods* I saw your earlier post about those concerns. "Three moves are as good as a fire," as they say: each time you move to a new place, you lose things, and you lose touch with people. I like your ideas for how to make that process smoother. With what's happening to Twitter, those ideas could be very valuable. I wonder what we can do-- and who we need to work with for help-- to make those ideas a reality?
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MastodonI want to help all the alterhuman communities connect with one another & flourish all over the Fediverse. (I'd also like that to help turn the birdsite into a wasteland that nobody uses.)
I mean I knew this was the real purpose of Musk's takeover rather than any straightforward 'business decision' and that he really wants the end of democracy just like his friends Thiel, Yarvin etc. it was just counting the days.
Yeah, that's kind of the limit. I just don't think I can be part of a service that's actively working to restore dictatorship. Will be forced to delete the day it happens. And it's not fair to artists, they will lose due to my actions, not fair to people who depend on that site for their livelihood who of course oppose this and had no part in this. just don't know what else to do