Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> Instead of getting all riled up, and promethean/tantalusian, I much prefer
> to laugh at this completely ridiculous monkey business.
>
> Yes, they're killing people because of their stupidity, but it's still
> primarily one thing: hilarious.
Well, monkey business it clearly is (I think this goes in the Creative
Tautology bag), and it is funny, in the classic pathetic humor style. Yes, it
will all sort itself out with time, and most of the folks that are getting
"up" about this have no clue about the truly promethean impact of the things
we see coming in the next 20 years. Galileo knew the solar system would keep
turning even if he recanted, and that there was no way to stop people from
knowing about it, eventually. There is no way to stop people from finding out
that cells are machines, and although complex, are just patterns of atoms that
have self propagation 'potential'. However, for this to be generally
understood, we will have to wait a bit more.
-Ken
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