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If you came to the comments to check whether this is worth your time: it isn't. Incoherent vaguely malthusian rambling dressed up with technobabble.
by nazgulnarsil 13y ago
If you came to the comments to check whether this is worth your time: it isn't. Incoherent vaguely malthusian rambling dressed up with technobabble.
- mbillie1 13y agoI wish I read this before I read the whole article.
- mil 13y agocoherent, but not sensible. seemed like not much more than far-fetched idealism. i simply cannot envision a kind of society where information would not be free and in a "protected" or isolated sort of state as he wishes. i have not dug into his philosophy deeply, however, i cannot comprehend how you would prevent information "looting". maybe in a society of free of hackers...
- vacri 13y agoI came to the comments to check just that right after reading "ideas that are making us collectively poorer instead of richer, or at least less richer than we could be". There's something seriously wrong with considering these two concepts as being semantically equivalent.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoJaron comes across as afraid of the future. His thesis seems to be that there are many possible horrible futures, and he imagines them to be more likely than "good" outcomes. And it doesn't read like he has any tools to reason about either one or the other. Hence the fear. Bill Joy went through a similar phase with his infamous grey goo manifesto. I think he has come back somewhat from the brink on that. I can appreciate the fear aspect of it. Greg Benford's TimeScape [1] scared the crap out me. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape