Vladimir_M comments on Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong
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I don't know what to make of this:
Suicide note
Article
I've begun skimming a few of the chapters (the titles aren't anything if not provocative). On the one hand I am quite predisposed to view the entire work as mostly bunk, because manifestos of this nature often are. However on the other hand, the idea of a philosopher driven to death by his learning is a stimulating archetype enough for me to explore this. And yes I know that considering he quotes:
Its certain he was playing on that.
I've decided to post this here for rationality detox so I don't pick up any craziness (I'd wager a high probability of there being some there).
He seems to have developed what he terms a sociobiolgical analysis of the history of liberal democracy, reminiscent so far in parts of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. This judging by a few excerpts of the ending chapter culminates in a kind of singularitarian view and the inevitability of human extinction at the hands of our self created transhuman Gods.
I just skimmed a few random pages of the book, and ran into this stunning passage:
The small part of the book I've seen so far sounds lucid and without any signs of craziness, and based on this passage, I would guess that there is whole lot of interesting stuff in there. I'll try reading more as time permits.