Category Archives: luddites

Francis Fukuyama, stasist twit

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 07 by Anton

Francis Fukuyama doesn’t think much of libertarians. The hostility of libertarians to big government extended to U.S. involvement in the world. The Cato Institute propounded isolationism in the ’90s, on the ground that global leadership was too expensive. At the … Continue reading →

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catch ’em early

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 21 by Anton

The Spirit of Kyoto? I’ve heard it suggested that manmade pollution helped end the Little Ice Age. Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle wrote a novel on a similar premise, Fallen Angels.

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another setback for cryonics

Posted on Thursday, 2002 March 14 by Anton

French court rules that frozen couple must be buried (BBC). According to French law, a corpse must be buried, cremated or donated to science. A naïf like me might suppose that a longterm scientific experiment, even if performed by amateurs, … Continue reading →

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a pox on bioethicists

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 March 06 by Anton

Hooray for Designer Babies! The ‘bioethicists’ seem to be worried that desirable diversity could be wiped out by fads, which would make sense if a majority of parents for thirty years were to fall for the same fad. Am I … Continue reading →

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