Perplexed comments on Ben Goertzel: The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 07 November 2010 04:49:26PM *  1 point [-]

Tim, I know and you know that your use of the phrase "intelligent design" is not meant to include supernatural designers. Most other people don't know that, and hence react negatively. Since you expect this response, that makes you a troll (some unnamed sub-species of troll - I hope a vanishing sub-species!)

Why do you persist in doing this?

Piling on and downvoting.

Comment author: timtyler 07 November 2010 11:20:11PM *  -2 points [-]

"Intelligent design" refers any designers who are intelligent, in my book - supernatural or not.

It is true that I don't use "intelligent design" as an abbreviation for "the hypothesis that an intelligent designer created most organic beings". That abbreviation is basically a misuse of terminology - and needs killing off.