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Marc Geddes's avatar

I will use my own blog from now on. The trouble with transhumanism at the moment is that its all far too theoretical. Intellect is not the human strength, our real strength is creative hacking. Besides, someone has to promote the virtues of 'dirty play' - bad ass Slytherin virtues of cunning and rebelliousness, a willingness to bend the rules.

My new blog is here:http://zarzuelazen.com/word...

Hacker's Maxim #1:

“Trust what works; never trust egg-head theories until they deliver the goods”

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Overcoming Bias Commenter's avatar

As many others have said, the question is open to many interpretations. Often people run together several of them in asking it, or aren't entirely sure what they mean. But I think the core of what most people mean is what Kilgore Trout (aka Philip Jose Farmer) asks in Venus on the Half Shell: "Why are we born to suffer and die?" If you're an atheist, like most here, you'll find the question to be meaningless. No one designed the universe to investment your existence with intrinsic significance. If you're religious and believe in an afterlife, like billions of others, you'll answer that question differently. Life is a test; if you pass it, you won't really die after all.

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