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Michael Warden's avatar

Well said, and much needed. We should know the place of Harari in the historical pantheon of inhuman ideologists from the way that he has declared most of human to be 'useless'.

I have been planning at some time to write some kind of 'answer to Harari' myself. There is a question however as to whether such warped and indefensibile visions warrant the substantial work that would be required to disentangle the tightly-woven web of fallacies. Perhaps better to expose its ridiculousness with cogent but humourous comments such as your observation on about 'hackers all the way down'.

I'm fully with you that complexity theory (as well as the long history of humanity in surviving and overcoming dark ideological episodes) says they must fail. My own focus has been that we must strive to mitigate in whatever degree they can to mitigate the horrific damage they are going to do first (already in progress). But your point that we must prepare ourselves for that moment of maximum chaos is a step further, and a great insight.

Thank you, this is great work!

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Valerie Grimes, Hypnotist's avatar

I signed up for your IPAK-EDU course on Transhumanism so I can educate my friends, family and community.

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