superlativity

The other problem is the absurd superlativity of the book's claims, so I will just quote two more sentences:

Archive 2006-06-01 Becca 2006

The other problem is the absurd superlativity of the book's claims, so I will just quote two more sentences:

I Won't Be Reading It After All Becca 2006

But given the flabbergasting ferocity of the libertopian market-fundy climate-change denialist racist gun-nut fringiloquence of so much of that era of transhumanism there was frankly nowhere for superlativity to go but left.

amor mundi 2009

When I say that superlativity is annoying and damaging to longevity-medicine dialogue, I am saying that no, it will not in any way, shape, or form help your grandmother live longer if you go around spouting off and gesticulating about how someday super-AIs will be able to extract the molecular patterns of people long-dead out of the atmosphere and reconstitute those people in some strange zombie homeopathy.

amor mundi 2009

Politics reduced to instrumental calculation is politics drained of freedom, drained of its raison d'etre and the wish-fulfillment fantasies sold in the name of "the future" in which that instrumentality presumably would be amplified into superlativity or progress-without-end can never compensate that initial mutilation.

amor mundi 2009

We have the Order of Cosmic Engineers and comparable kooks who say "oh my YES!" to full-throated Rapture of the Nerds superlativity and who are having no truck at all with the moderation and political correctness of the HumanityPlusTronic sect, yielding the freshly-minted

amor mundi 2009

Just because I think superlativity tends to distort dialogue and make it difficult to focus on what can actually be done in the real world does not mean I disparage the power of human imagination or our capacity to change things for the better.

amor mundi 2009

The paper "A Design for a Primitive Nanofactory" [this paper was cited by Michael as evidence that superlativity was not as marginal as I claim it to be] was published in a transhumanist journal which is not indexed by the major scientific databases.

amor mundi 2009

But as far as I can tell, my position is not only quite consistent but not even that extraordinary for all the confusion it seems to provoke in those who have bought into technocentric superlativity or supernativity.

amor mundi 2009

The silliness of superlativity is not enough to justify ignoring it or failing to understand it, especially once we see the context of techno-utopianism in which it so legibly locates itself.

amor mundi 2009