I don’t think James Hughes would present or believe in that particular low-quality analysis himself either, if he didn’t feel that SIAI is an organization competing with his IEET for popularity within the transhumanist subculture.
So mostly that statement is probably just about using “divide and conquer” towards transhumanists/singularitarians who are currently more popular within the transhumanist subculture than he is.
I don’t think James Hughes would present or believe in that particular low-quality analysis himself either, if he didn’t feel that SIAI is an organization competing with his IEET for popularity within the transhumanist subculture.
So mostly that statement is probably just about using “divide and conquer” towards transhumanists/singularitarians who are currently more popular within the transhumanist subculture than he is.
James Hughes seems like a fine fellow to me—and his SIAI disagreements seem fairly genuine. It is much of the rest of IEET that is the problem.