Giulio Prisco

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• Commented on The Curious Experience of Middle Age
  I am 3 years older than you. As you say, "one of the rewards of aging is learning to not give a damn about the opinion of those with nothing productive to say, as well as the nagging little perfectionist...
• Commented on Why I Do Self-Publish
  Great to see you here Linda! I loved The Bohr Maker, Deception Well, Vast, and Limits of Vision (my favorite). I think self-publishing may be not advisable for a new author (if you self-publish your first novel, that means nobody...
• Commented on Dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century
  Re "[the Catholic Church is] a rare example of a human institution that has survived for quadruple-digit years. And the way they have managed to survive that long, is by practicing realpolitik and adapting to a changing world. They adapt...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  @Charlie re "we end up imposing the same (or similar) patterns on the evidence" According to Kant and later thinkers, space and time themselves are patterns that we impose on reality. Perhaps causality as well. If we always end up...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  The parallels between transhumanism and religion are remarkable indeed. There is, however, an important difference: religion is a belief, while transhumanism is a plan. The difference is the same as the difference between "We will win the game because God...
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  Re "the transhumanists are in danger of merely reinventing Christianity, in a more dour and fun-phobic guise. See also: Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov." Why, we _have_ reinvented religion, but in a fun-loving guise....
• Commented on Things that keep me awake at night #1: The end of telephony
  I admire your self-control, when they call my landline phone to sell crap I say worse than "fuck off!" After so many years of online life I have become so used to sending/receiving email/IM asking if and when to call,...
• Commented on The ticking clock, stopped
  Of course this would affect my plans. There are so many good things that I used to do when I was younger, but stopped doing because the spirit is still strong but the flesh is already weak. I would restart...
• Commented on Attention Conservation Notice
  Wow this is so Cthul !...
• Commented on 2512
  Charlie, assuming your parameters (the current main trends continue without big game changers) the only world that I can imagine in 2512 is such a nightmare that I prefer not to think of it. There is just one relatively "good"...
• Commented on The ticking clock
  5 years is enough time to find a way not do die, perhaps enrolling in a very experimental clinical trial in some offshore place (dangerous but better than dying). Or at least long enough to _hope_ to escape death, which...