is there such a thing? do animals, plants, or other things have them?

  • StLangoustine [any]
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    4 years ago

    absolute ghoul Ray Kurzweil

    How much of a ghoul is he? I always stumble on bits of his writing when I read about transhumanism but I don't know anything about his politics or whatever.

    • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      He's a multi-millionaire libertarian finance capitalist type, like a lot of the big names in the silicon valley transhumanist movement. He's also the guy responsible, maybe more than anyone else, for shaping the culture of that movement. His goal is not to better the human condition for everyone, but for himself specifically. He's said before that he basically thinks, if the poors get bionic eyeballs and the reverse-aging pills sometime down the line, great, but it's not a priority.