Entry tags:

blog, singularity, stupid, transhumanism

Infeasible isn't
Yet another narrow-cast blog, but there is a twist to this one: Infeasible is a blog dedicated to proving Transhumanism is a crock of shit.

Why bother? The author says he wants to make the world a better place:

However, thanks to the internet, I can really make a positive impact on the world by maintaining this blog and refuting all Transhumanists claims. I might not be able to win the Nobel Prize, but I can certainly handle Transhumanism and in doing so, I can leave the world in a better state than I entered it.

How does refuting Transhumanism make the world better? He doesn't actually say, he just doesn't like Transhumanism because those who believe in it cannot 'contemplate their own insignificance'. Despite claiming to be a scientist, the author repeats this kind of muddy thinking throughout the blog.

Still, one has to admit Transhumanists and Singulatarians often make silly and stupid claims which are easy targets. And I do believe there is plenty of room for criticism. I just wish the criticism wasn't coming from someone who proves in post after post that they have little more than a surface understanding of Transhumanist thought. (In fact I even spent a little time wondering if Infeasible wasn't a lame attempt at parody.)

This shallow treatment leads one to wonder if the author even bothered to read the appropriate Wikipedia pages or do a google on the terms Singularity and Transhumanism. For example, in my (admittedly) quick look at the blog I found no mention of Vernor Vinge or Max More; who originated said terms. The only thought leaders or information sources I did find were the author saying he had read the web pages of Hans Moravec and heard a C-Span interview of Ray Kurzweil.

In the end Infeasible isn't the gadfly Transhumanism needs; it isn't smart enough and it isn't clued in enough. And that is really too bad...