From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 05:48:12 +0000 (-0800) Subject: elaborate on epistemic status of "From What I've Tasted of Desire" X-Git-Url: http://534655.efjtl6rk.asia/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ad201ebceebf66c63001982ec05b7e3a5e1186ae;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git elaborate on epistemic status of "From What I've Tasted of Desire" This post has gotten a disproportionate amount of attention but justifiably evokes a lot of "WTF!?"-ness from readers who don't already get where I'm coming from; maybe strengthen the warning label just a bit --- diff --git a/content/2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md b/content/2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md index 80b31c2..c9ee435 100644 --- a/content/2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md +++ b/content/2017/from-what-ive-tasted-of-desire.md @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Category: commentary > > —["Ballad of the Crystal Empire"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kESi3hksPg0), _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_ -_(Epistemic status: far more plausible than it has any right to be.)_ +_(Epistemic status: somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but also far more plausible than it has any right to be. Assumes the correctness of [Blanchard's transsexualism typology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard's_transsexualism_typology) without arguing it here.)_ So, not a lot of people understand this, but the end of the world is, in fact, nigh. _Conditional_ on civilization not collapsing (which is itself a _kind_ of end of the world), sometime in the next century or so, someone is going to invent better-than-human artificial general intelligence. And from that point on, humans are not really in control of what happens in this planet's future light cone.