Transhumanistic Tyrannies… « Back Towards The Locus

Transhumanistic Tyrannies… « Back Towards The Locus: "The preponderance of conspiracies throughout our history – famously in, say, the Roman or Elizabethan times – suggests that when people express contempt at the notion of “conspiracy theories” they’re implying that society has progressed in a manner that has rendered them unlikely. I’ve challenged this at length – and, I’m afraid, will do again – but what occurs to me is how much futuristic theories of governance imply that plots, stratagems and coercion may figure. In his essay “What is a Singleton” Nick Bostrom, the director of the gloriously titled Future of Humanity Institute, writes that…"