From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 15:01:00 MST
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: Anders response to "Politics of Transhumanism"
> (I'm not sure about this attribution:
> Forrest Bishop" <forrestb@ix.netcom.com> ?)
>
> >> Scholarly consensus enables supreme control of the general will
> >> in preparing for submission to the shared aspirations of a
> >> participatory global security landscape. Facilitation of
> >> cooperation rests on a solid foundation of collective strength
> >> under the generous, charismatic leadership of esteemed public
> >> policy savants in order to actualize the infrastructure of a
> >> global governance regime.
>
> Is that paragraph really something said by a thinking human
> being? It reads like computer-generated prose fed by a database
> of old issues of /Social Text/ or something. If this is typical
> of the output of a certain organization, I see no reason to
> take that organization seriously.
It was generated by copping phrases from various books and online references (see next post), then pasting them together in
semi-logical order, much the same as the UN Declaration of Human Rights and Agenda 21 were. It occured to me as well this process
can be automated.
Forrest
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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