tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post1186309000310114418..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: What is the biggest coming threat to modern salvation? Probably implanted 'smart' technologyBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-83469722552116756292016-10-01T06:27:26.010+01:002016-10-01T06:27:26.010+01:00@ALb - One of the most influential posts from this...@ALb - One of the most influential posts from this blog gave the example of space travel<br /><br />http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/human-capability-peaked-about-1975-and.html<br /><br />My book (http://corruption-of-science.blogspot.co.uk) Not Even Trying discusses this in more detail. Another book The Genius Famine explains some of the reasons why we hardly ever make intellectual breakthroughs - although I don't mention that this decline in power and capability may have divine reasons, and be for our own good - i.e. to prevent the transhumanist nightmare. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-13651830337972228982016-10-01T04:12:50.711+01:002016-10-01T04:12:50.711+01:00"Technological capability is already declinin..."Technological capability is already declining…"<br /><br />I won't dispute this, but can you cite specific examples?Albrechtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-60895976718423971592016-09-27T16:45:59.303+01:002016-09-27T16:45:59.303+01:00Weaker vessels. Women need social approval in ways...Weaker vessels. Women need social approval in ways men do not or not to the same degree. I expected more men than women would have tattoos. It was certainly true when I was a boy. Only sailors and criminals had tattoos. <br /><br />Now you see it all the time.Rainforest Gianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15385869309076485429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-90695709194979337022016-09-26T18:21:35.362+01:002016-09-26T18:21:35.362+01:00@Nathaniel - "Even just to comment on this bl...@Nathaniel - "Even just to comment on this blog we're assisting the "artificial intelligence" that interprets photographs" - there can be no escape from this - but we can create enough space to start work, and then we can raise our conscious state to a point that we are immune. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-9845900655772102492016-09-26T16:25:41.956+01:002016-09-26T16:25:41.956+01:00I see "virtual reality" as a serious thr...I see "virtual reality" as a serious threat, and not just a curiosity. Of course, we all seem to live in "virtual reality" to some extent, where media enters our lives and those around us.<br /><br />I definitely see the desire of virtual reality as society decays, of fantasy and escape. Most of my life I'd have rather been at Hogwarts or Middle Earth than where I was.<br /><br />The threat from implanted technology is already here, I think. Smartphones already actively report your location, activity, etc. There is no definite escape from the comprehensive tracking - though the mask hasn't completely fallen off yet - it's not used in a Communist fashion - yet.<br /><br />(Even just to comment on this blog we're assisting the "artificial intelligence" that interprets photographs)Nathanielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531664498277638757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-25367226918517170342016-09-26T10:59:30.411+01:002016-09-26T10:59:30.411+01:00@joseph - It is interesting that women are even ke...@joseph - It is interesting that women are even keener on this kind of thing than men - for example twice as many young women as men engage in self-mutilation via tattoos; and it is celar that smartphone addiction is far stronger and more frequent among women. <br /><br />(Of course, most women are lost souls, adrift, deeply-confused, and incipiently subject to being overwhelmed by self-loathing in this post-religious and anti family/ marriage world; hence the pitiful grasping at social and virtual peer approval.) <br /><br />I wonder whether the social engineering of near-ubiquitous tattoos (plus extreme piercing) may have been, in part, a psychological preparation for the implantation of monitoring and control technologies (masquerading as entertainment and communication devices)? Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-20654740974671559612016-09-26T03:07:20.071+01:002016-09-26T03:07:20.071+01:00Western man has embraced his fetters willingly -- ...Western man has embraced his fetters willingly -- and with enthusiasm. Our fate trends more according to Huxley than Orwell, it seems. To go back a bit, though, St. John's prophesy appears even more frightening . . .<br /><br />I always suspected that people would accept the mark of the beast with mixed intentions -- willingly but only because they wished to avoid persecution/starvation/suffering. I never considered that men would relish the thought of getting branded -- would choose to stand in long lines to be among the first to wear the seal. The insanity of today's techophiles might be a foreshadowing type for the apocalyptic damned -- cheerful slaves of forces who tirelessly work toward their (the slaves') destruction.Joseph A.http://www.arimathea.orgnoreply@blogger.com