IBM researcher defends Second Life, World of Warcraft, against Parallelnormal blog posts.
from Mark:
High-profile virtual worlders are trying to correct what they see as misrepresentations by Parallelnormal of their recent meetings and events.
One of them, Second Lifer “Dale Innis,” writes a comment blasting my comparison of real and virtual versions of New England, and my description of a conference about the convergence of reality with virtual reality.
“(You) drastically misread your sources about the WoW conference and the Extropia sims, and you seem to do the same thing in many places where Second Life is involved,” Innis writes.
Innis in real life (RL) is IBM researcher David M. Chess.
IBM has built inworld stores for big box retailers.
Chess is working to develop autonomic technologies, which are self-aware and can fix themselves.
Chess, speaking for himself, and not IBM, denies that Extropia and the World of Warcraft conference “are in fact about transhumanism.”
Yet the WoW conference was organized by a transhumanist, and one who views the world’s major religions as an obstacle to the advancement of his own beliefs.
And extropians, by their own definition, are transhumanists, real or imagined.
“Chess, speaking for himself, and not IBM, denies that Extropia and the World of Warcraft conference “are in fact about transhumanism.”
Yet the WoW conference was organized by a transhumanist…”
Wow! Wonderful deductive skills you have. I assume you also believe that any conference organized by a Christian is about Christianity, any conference organized by a woman is about women, and any conference organized by a blogger is about blogging? XD
Reminds me of the blog post you made about the New York Times covertly promoting the transhumanist agenda because they posted a story talking about a paper by Dr. Nick Bostrom *that had nothing to do with the topic*! lol
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