#637: Skeptical Thoughts about "Bioaccelerationism"
Worries about Richard Hanania's optimism.
In one of my favorite essays, transhumanist philosopher Nicholas Agar confessed that he had attained his notoriety by being a philosophical “shit-stirrer,” which is a term of art for people who attempt to provoke or irritate. As he wrote then, “Shit-stirring has become a big problem in philosophical ethics, where it tends to take the form of statements …
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