I am not interested in what someone is against until I have seen what they are for.
A rule I have just applied here. It’s easy to be against things. Anyone can do it, there are whole blogs created just to be against something or other. I don’t read sucks blogs.
There are only so many words it is useful to expend on explaining why X sucks. Once you’ve given all the reasons, there is nowhere to go but to repeat yourself. To whine. It’s the safe thing to do, because if you thought about what, specifically, you want instead (“Not X” isn’t it), then you would be faced with the task of creating it.
(I won’t go into an alternative way of avoiding the work, which is to magnify what you do want into an impossibly huge and far-off goal, except to say that it’s a standard transhumanist failure mode.)
I am not interested in what someone is against until I have seen what they are for.
A rule I have just applied here. It’s easy to be against things. Anyone can do it, there are whole blogs created just to be against something or other. I don’t read sucks blogs.
There are only so many words it is useful to expend on explaining why X sucks. Once you’ve given all the reasons, there is nowhere to go but to repeat yourself. To whine. It’s the safe thing to do, because if you thought about what, specifically, you want instead (“Not X” isn’t it), then you would be faced with the task of creating it.
(I won’t go into an alternative way of avoiding the work, which is to magnify what you do want into an impossibly huge and far-off goal, except to say that it’s a standard transhumanist failure mode.)