forestine started reading More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
This “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and …
So I took a break from the bleakness of Who's Afraid of Gender? for something more fun.
Oh wait, turns out this book is about silicon valley techbros and every chapter makes me madder and madder. Effective altruism, etc.
Yesterday I was sitting at the park and it was a beautiful day. I sat there reading about Ray Kurzweil's vision for humans to colonize the entire universe with nanobots until they kill everything and turn everything into nanobots "and that's when the universe wakes up" and just sat there, horrified. I looked around at all the leaves on the elms, the blades of grass, thinking, all of this would just be gone. But that's okay, you'll still be around, with your brain uploaded to a computer. As if that's really you. Oooof. And Kurzweil doesn't understand the brain. "It's what, a terabyte? How hard can it be?"
The singularity is just an apocalypse fantasy.
And then he says obviously every civilization would end up here so that's why there is no other intelligent life. So everything is ours for the taking.
I hate this so much! How have so many people been lapping up his guy's bad ideas for so many years?
if i don't finish this book it's because I got too enraged. i probably won't write an annoyed rant about every chapter but >_<
