[LINK] Charlie Stross: Federov's Rapture

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This is a follow-up to his article on Singularitarianism last week, which was also discussed here.

His own introduction:

Last week I did a brief hit and run on the concept of the Singularity. Today I'd like to raise awareness of one of the taproots of Extropian thought — specifically, the origins of modern singularitarian thinking in the writings of the 19th century Russian Orthodox teacher and librarian, Nikolai Fyodorov (or Federov).

I'm not sure if the point is really anything more than guilt-by-association, because he doesn't really make a complete argument for anything in particular.

Federov's Rapture at Charlie's Diary

This is a follow-up to his article on Singularitarianism last week, which was also discussed here.

His own introduction:

Last week I did a brief hit and run on the concept of the Singularity. Today I'd like to raise awareness of one of the taproots of Extropian thought — specifically, the origins of modern singularitarian thinking in the writings of the 19th century Russian Orthodox teacher and librarian, Nikolai Fyodorov (or Federov).

I'm not sure if the point is really anything more than guilt-by-association, because he doesn't really make a complete argument for anything in particular.

So far as I understand your comment, Bringsjord loses a lot of credibility. Thanks for explaining his argument from behind the paywall in your link. Also I looked at more of his paper on Singularitarians being fideists, and he says in the paper that there are arguments for the Singularity and he's going to "debunk" them. I'm starting to think he doesn't know what the word "fideist" means.

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