I have probably linked to some of his shorter posts before, but this week calls for a counterweight.

wasoxygen:

Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease scores:

116: "The cat sat on the mat."

65: Reader's Digest

57.9: Moby Dick

52: Time magazine

low 30s: Harvard Law Review

0.2: Dale Carrico's Condensed Critique of Transhumanism

As far as I can tell, there is no critique here, merely links to other arguments. But it is very likely that I am missing something, or some things.

The first of four pieces which "subsume transhumanism within the terms of my critique" — i.e., criticize transhumanism — is similarly opaque:

"Of course, there is no question that no technology, however superlative, could deliver literally omni-predicated capacities..."

I think he means that even a robot couldn't make a stone so heavy that the robot couldn't lift it.

Is there a Simple English version?


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