Douglas_Knight comments on SingInst bloomberg coverage [link] - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Dr_Manhattan 19 December 2011 07:31PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 20 December 2011 04:04:29AM 2 points [-]

Have you read Kaczynski?

Comment author: David_Gerard 20 December 2011 11:14:53AM 6 points [-]

That the sentence fragment is technically accurate does not somehow make it not poisoning the well.

Comment author: fetidodor 20 December 2011 06:58:29AM 1 point [-]

Personally, no, is that what he really talks about?

Comment author: saturn 20 December 2011 09:58:36AM *  4 points [-]

He does touch on the idea of a singleton that enslaves humanity, as one of several possible negative outcomes of our not renouncing technology and destroying modern society.

(It's been about 10 years since I read his manifesto, so I'm not very confident that I remember it accurately.)