Comments on: Non-deep thought http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/non-deep-thought/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 By: dave chamberlin http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/non-deep-thought/#comment-320 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:18:31 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=134#comment-320 What! We don’t need philosophers added to the mix of ideal futurists. That is the first blogging heads science Saturday I had to cut short. Good God they can be tiresome.
“You’re a dirty dualist.”
“Fuck you you’re a vitalist.”
Now wasn’t that more entertaining.

]]> By: bruce http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/non-deep-thought/#comment-282 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:39:43 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=134#comment-282 1900 Utopia: fat poor people, women can be doctors and even doctors of philosophy, there’s a bicycle in every apartment and something’s finally been done about those giant mounds of horse manure at every intersection.

2000 Utopia: poor (=dumb) people all have enough personal information technology to jack us up like normals, men have sexbots, there’s a flying car in every garage and something’s finally been done about having to trust mass media.

]]> By: Razib http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/non-deep-thought/#comment-259 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:59:26 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=134#comment-259 good points. though re: chastity, i would like to look at the numbers, not ideals, too.

]]> By: Chris B http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/non-deep-thought/#comment-256 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:43:25 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=134#comment-256 Utopia by any measure? Surely a 1900-er would view 2010 with a mixture of wonder and horror. What of religion? What of chastity?

]]> By: Rob http://www.gnxp.com/new/2010/03/13/non-deep-thought/#comment-255 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:33:39 +0000 http://www.gnxp.com/wp/?p=134#comment-255 Unfit for Life: Genetically enhance humanity or face extinction

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