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Does anyone remember when that one commenter freaked out and declared he would be attempting to marginally increase existential risk by sending right-wingers information about the singularity?
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Clearly Waitingforgodel was talking about, y'know conservative people - with a conservative general mindset that extends into politics - and not progress-loving, ultra-capitalist right-wingers that get lumped in as "Conservatives". The distinction looks obvious enough to me.
And I'm not at all convinced that we should prefer the latter's enthusiasm to the former's anger.
Glenn Beck is hardly someone whose enthusiasm you should welcome.
He has a creationist agenda that he has found a way to support with the ideas surrounding the topic of the Singularity.
Yeah, well, I view a compartmentalized belief in something like Creationism as practically harmless - unless its holder is directly involved with the relevant fields of science, ofc. No, I was expressing concern about his ideological stance and his apparent view of society, which I find much less wise and much more harmful than, say, traditional European-style conservatism. You can tell that a commie like me is deeply alarmed when I start praising the latter! (But hush, this is veering off.)
That's because you're a Burkean socialist. That distinction is not obvious to a large part of the population.
We ought to be more savvy than the general public in most regards, though, shouldn't we?
My point is that the distinction might not have been obvious to Waitingforgodel.
Yeah, well, in that case it's more evidence that he wasn't acting very sensibly :)