This is an example of why technological skepticism arguments rarely are useful. The skeptic always makes unwarranted assumptions about how the technology must work.
I’m a sceptic about uploads coming first, the usefulness of eyetaps, the potential of cyborg technology. I also doubt that we will be making chairs and tables out of diamond. It seems necessary to be sceptical about some of this stuff, otherwise you swallow too many stupid dreams. Perhaps we should celebrate the jet-pack sceptics more. After all, they were mostly right—and that should count for something.
I’m a sceptic about uploads coming first, the usefulness of eyetaps, the potential of cyborg technology. I also doubt that we will be making chairs and tables out of diamond. It seems necessary to be sceptical about some of this stuff, otherwise you swallow too many stupid dreams. Perhaps we should celebrate the jet-pack sceptics more. After all, they were mostly right—and that should count for something.