Comments on: Multis and Monos: What the Multicultured Can Teach the Monocultured Towards the Creation of a Global State http://www.kurzweilai.net/multis-and-monos-what-the-multicultured-can-teach-the-monocultured-towards-the-creation-of-a-global-state Accelerating Intelligence Thu, 23 May 2013 21:58:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: GLOBA: accelerating technologies will create a global state by 2050 « Terry Olgin's Blog http://www.kurzweilai.net/multis-and-monos-what-the-multicultured-can-teach-the-monocultured-towards-the-creation-of-a-global-state/comment-page-1#comment-2218 GLOBA: accelerating technologies will create a global state by 2050 « Terry Olgin's Blog Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:43:31 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=103198#comment-2218 [...] above essay is a summary of the ideas in the author’s second book, Multis and Monos : What the Multicultured Can Teach  the Monocultured: Towards the Creation of a Gl.... The ideas above concerning the rise of the artilect are taken largely from the author’s first [...] [...] above essay is a summary of the ideas in the author’s second book, Multis and Monos : What the Multicultured Can Teach  the Monocultured: Towards the Creation of a Gl…. The ideas above concerning the rise of the artilect are taken largely from the author’s first [...]

]]> By: Sean Strange http://www.kurzweilai.net/multis-and-monos-what-the-multicultured-can-teach-the-monocultured-towards-the-creation-of-a-global-state/comment-page-1#comment-1818 Sean Strange Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:11:54 +0000 http://www.kurzweilai.net/?p=103198#comment-1818 The problem with the utopian global state that Mr. de Garis imagines is that if it turns into global dictatorship – which the history of other grandiose political projects (Soviet Union, etc.) suggests is very likely – then to follow de Garis’ program would be to create the architecture of our global enslavement. The EU is already in deep trouble and is showing dictatorial tendencies, so I’m not sure why anyone would want to hold it up as a model for the rest of humanity. True diversity does not arise from global institutions, but from independent local cultures. It’s truly disturbing how little common sense these “mad scientists” have about human nature. We are, after all, plains apes adapted for life in small tribes, and there is little reason to believe that we are destined to be a global species. I’m much more concerned about a globalist dystopia resulting from the dreams of rather crazy people like de Garis (who also envisions a future apocalyptic war between pro-technologists who want to build “god brains” and anti-technologists who want nothing to do with their mad schemes). The rational scientific project is in constant danger of running amok and exterminating us, which means that deranged globalist scientists like de Garis are a far greater danger to humanity than any non-globalist traditionalist or “Terran” could ever be. The problem with the utopian global state that Mr. de Garis imagines is that if it turns into global dictatorship – which the history of other grandiose political projects (Soviet Union, etc.) suggests is very likely – then to follow de Garis’ program would be to create the architecture of our global enslavement. The EU is already in deep trouble and is showing dictatorial tendencies, so I’m not sure why anyone would want to hold it up as a model for the rest of humanity.

True diversity does not arise from global institutions, but from independent local cultures. It’s truly disturbing how little common sense these “mad scientists” have about human nature. We are, after all, plains apes adapted for life in small tribes, and there is little reason to believe that we are destined to be a global species. I’m much more concerned about a globalist dystopia resulting from the dreams of rather crazy people like de Garis (who also envisions a future apocalyptic war between pro-technologists who want to build “god brains” and anti-technologists who want nothing to do with their mad schemes). The rational scientific project is in constant danger of running amok and exterminating us, which means that deranged globalist scientists like de Garis are a far greater danger to humanity than any non-globalist traditionalist or “Terran” could ever be.

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