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The wild and unsubstantiated claims in this thread from "cybernetic enhancements" to "mind uploading" are so hand wavy we could start an entire jazz hand quarte
by vunderba 2y ago
The wild and unsubstantiated claims in this thread from "cybernetic enhancements" to "mind uploading" are so hand wavy we could start an entire jazz hand quartet.
I refer back to my comment from a few days earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733615#40734638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40733615#40734638
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoLook, I want my cyberpunk future. Stop pointing out that it's not going to happen in my lifetime.
- dang 2y agoPlease don't post dismissive comments about the rest of the community and please especially don't do it repeatedly. There's an entire spectrum of views here. Singling out the segment that you most dislike and overgeneralizing from there is something that many readers do*, but it leads to low-quality, irritable comments and those lead to lame discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20notice%20dislike&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- __loam 2y agoDang, with respect, is there any room for critical discussion on this site? I understand wanting to maintain the climate, but a lot of these discussions are coming from non-experts or have profoundly negative ethical implications. Particularly when things like the brain comes up, it seems like science fiction is more accepted than actual science.
- dang 2y agoCertainly there is room for critical discussion. My GP comment was about irritable generalizations driven by a common cognitive bias— that's something different, no? or perhaps you're talking about something else?