Please tell me of all these fallacies. I have not recently read any book on fallacies and I am not aware that I have made any. I am genuinely interested in what fallacies I have made.

Great response but a few issues/problems. The craft is not simply a hard gleaming hull. The warp bubble when activated becomes a part of the craft. The ship itself is not moving but the warping effects of the bubble expanding space from behind the craft and constricting it in front is trapping and carrying with it…

The physical barriers and difficulties on earth are child's play in comparison to physical limitations, constraints, barriers and fickleness of all the myriad components of the cosmos. It'd be nice to believe that faster than light space travel can happen in my lifetime or in the next few centuries. But these physical…

It is not an unfortunate view. It is a reality based view. We have examples of colonization that have taken place on the earth. In each instance, colonization was a catastrophe for the indigenous population, the most glaring and historically poignant being the European "discovery"(invasion) of the so-called new world.…

Yeah. "We'd be able." Thing is, it hasn't happened and it's not going to happen. Too technically involved, too precarious, too expensive, machinery is too delicate, the physics equations say it can't happen without exotic matter, which scientists are not really sure what that is, let alone where to get hold of it in…

Thing is I do not think nor believe that any of the stuff written in the article is practical, feasible, let alone necessary. Can anyone give me a good reason why we should go into the radiation filled, cold hell of space besides, "just cause", "curiosity compels us"(a variant of "just cause") or to "acquire more…

I find it amazing how many few people appreciate the natural barriers that the cosmos has. Human interstellar space travel will never happen and you all can forget about intergalactic space travel. Space is a cold hell filled with radiation high velocity projectiles and it is not empty. If engineers could even meet…

A few things from reading this simple yet effective article.

Exactly.

In the future, everyone will laugh at the past conceptions of the future.

By the way, I have no idea why transhumanists latched on to the term "singularity". They very much remind me of the religious in the way they have often taken signs and symbols of brutality and gore and connected them to ideas of transcendence. So too have transhumanists taken a description of what happens in a black…

I agree. Kurzweil has indeed landed a job at google because he has actual technical expertise. Much of his pseudo-religious rants of man and machine coming into rapturous embrace("the singularity") have been largely curtailed, as he has gotten into the nitty gritty, hard work of actual programming and coding. All of…

Give up on "the singularity"? Was it ever really a thing outside of quasi-religious/pseudo-spiritual transhumanists? I don't think so. The very word transhumanist and transhumanism still get that underlined red error notification. The auto correct function don't even recognize those terms as words. The whole…

Philosophy is so fundamental and immediate, to call it useless or dismiss it, is worse than wrong. Without philosophy there would be no Socrates, Plato, or Rust Cohle.

Science used to be called natural philosophy.

Stop playing stupid. I mean the inevitable and perpetual decay of the physical world. Of matter. The ouroboros which has the snake consuming itself, the taijitu otherwise known as the "yin-yang symbol," ancient points of understanding that captures how nothing in the universe is permanent. With today's maths and…

First off this piece assumes that there will ever be a first contact. Next off, if we see how religion has affected the planet earth, we don't even need to question whether such a destructive human invention will be destructive against other lifeforms and other worlds. Of course it'll be a fucking disaster. Just be…

All these technological advances will be turned into weapons. All this so-called progress is actually a regress.

Of course they do. I never denied that. But it's still amazing how effectively humans in the past were able to understand certain things in a broad strokes kind of way. With our maths and sciences today we are filling in the details to what ancient people figured out in very general terms and methods.

I find it amazing that ancient humans did not need all these fancy and complex mathematical equations , needed no science ,to figure out how the universe and reality is, and where it's all going. The only unfortunate thing is that humans continue to hold on to the ancient notion of permanence, in an impermanent…