A Non-Half-Assed Response to “One Half a Manifesto” culture


	A Non-Half-Assed Response to “One Half a Manifesto” culture

Silkweaver

5-1-2008 10:29 AM

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transhumanism, singularity, future

Silkweaver says:

Interesting read for those interested in transhumanist and singularity issues

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7ca60393-3fa8-466f-a422-541ae95b0b89/D1CDA61E-2C21-42F0-82F1-31C0B4D57234/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=748" href="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=748" style="font-size: 11px;">www.acceleratingfuture.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=748">Well, it has been seven and a half years since Jaron Lanier’s <A href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier/lanier_index.html" linkindex="4" set="yes">“One Half of a Manifesto”</A>, but I thought, why not respond to it right this very second?  Better late than never.  This response is for Mr. Lanier and anyone else who is interested.  Below is an image of Mr. Lanier getting jiggy with a VR interface.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=748">Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality, musician, and currently the lead scientist for the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, worries about the future of human culture more than the gadgets. In his “Half a Manifesto” he takes on those he terms the “cybernetic totalists” who do not seem “to not have been educated in the tradition of scientific skepticism.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=748">I label myself a “so-called cybernetic totalist” in some of the responses that follow because I meet the criteria for the term as used by Mr. Lanier, although I object to its rhetorical implications.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=748">n my response below I will argue that scientific skepticism has been duly applied to our claims.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D1CDA61E-2C21-42F0-82F1-31C0B4D57234/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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