For a few years now, just the fact that CRN folks have ignored history of like
the Greeks with the Spartans, Persians, and then the Romans; and then, the
history of the Romans with the Christians murder of Hypatia and the burning of
the Alexandrian library . . . and then the history of the medieval period and so
on and so forth has kind of bothered me. They mention terrorism in the
backfield, but they don't understand it; i've put it in terms of some rather
interesting ideas about rationality which they've just kind of ignored or played
silence games.

But, couple that with the facts of these two new technologies(and the news of
some recent middle eastern governments that have been voted out by terrorist
organisations), and you know these guys are that socially bound up; i mean when
you point out things like socially bound up and they do exactly those behaviors,
you have to conclude they are irrationalists. They are plato's who combine
their mathematics with mythologies(witness the Gospel of John's "jesus is the
'word' of god to see the influence of Plato's rational mythology); Plato's modo
of taking advantage of those who want to be believe in falsities to protect
their fragile minds is also seen in Eusebius's Preparatio Evangelica(Eusebius
was Emporor Constantine's right hand man during the Necine conferences to decide
which gospels and other books were to be considered cannonized New Testament
material; after it was decided, those who were excluded were hunted down; some
'Gnostic' gospel people managed to hide their 'Gnostic' gospels in the Egyptian
sands to be uncovered around 1930s) were Eusebius essentially says on a chapter
heading "on how it is o.k. to make up superstition for those who want to be
decieved." You see, this is what compelled Bill Joy and the Unabomber to write
and do what they've done; because they see that mathematical science will become
victorious if mathematical science and technology continue on the pace they are.

Well anyways, at first, upon hearing about these brain reading and cloaking
technologies, I felt stronger than ever that mankind must not be confined on
Earth so that Democracies such as the Roman Republic with Julius Caesar and the
Germans when the Nazies were voted in, and recently some middle eastern
states(and recently, America had voted in rather irrationalist Republican
organisation) don't get voted out; so that the true human spirit that every
human child is born with is never beat down and mindwarped, space colonization
and expansion must be established. Lifeboats goal of protecting the Earth is
one thing, but permanent human confinement is quite another. CRN's paranoia of
others getting their hands on nanotechnologies is taken without question by the
lifeboat group and probably others who fear other human groups from developing
one way or another. Just listen to Mike Treder and his 'disruptive
technologies' talk; if nanotechnology happens, the industrial past will be swept
aside; oh no! Not! I can't wait till the industrial past is swept clean! This
'disruptive' technologies will only lead to disruptive thought; meaning, oh no,
this guy just disproved me; he's disrupting my thinking! and, and, my way of
life! whaahhhh! CRN's 'disruptive' talk is about preserving the irrational past
and can only lead to a new dark ages with all the associated inquisitions.
Nanomanufacturing naturaly lends towards decentralization; the permanent freeing
of mankind from mental/social fear group slavery and space expansion, and
Drexler, Mr's Phoenix/Treder/Joy/Kurzweil and the list goes on and on . . .
either originating the idea or blindly going with it because they've never had
to deal with social terrorisms(there's a reason they've become who they are now;
because the social group they were in supported and helped them along; a fact
they have zero appreciation for); they don't understand the fear mongering and
social anti-science that goes on with the rest of humanity; around puberty time,
most humans are too weak minded to notice and say no to the irrationality
mongering that starts to be accepted around those times . . . getting back to
those cloaking and brain reading technologies . . . now, I see that they can be
used to make the natural decentralized nano-world safe out in space(or even on
Planet Earth).

Today, we've taken on a nuclear standoff to prevent nuclear war; CRN argues that
won't work with nano-manufacturing. Even argueing with them on that point, I'm
thinking now that cloaking and even brain reading technologies can due in the
nano-world what the nuclear standoff did for the twentieth century. For
instance, out in space, maybe somebody has some ideas he'd like to share; but,
he does not know the other social groups; both groups are cloaked(and out in
space, these cloaking technologies can be even more effective); one guy either
wants help solvin some mathematics problems are wants to join in with solving
some mathematical science problems; neither has to uncloak; both can send their
ideas to a determined location and uncloak there with neither revealing the true
location each other is in; well, there can be lots of different ways of making
all this work. But, much the same idea can happen with brain reading
technologies; one group can agree(if they so choose) to enter a brain reading
room to those who they trust(if they feel they can trust each other; it's their
choice); there the person can see whether this social group is benign or not;
really, I'm thinking that the brain reading technologies should be able to
advance enough to where both can see and read each others thoughts and know
where each other stands. This can even be done while both parties are cloaked.

The truth is that there's only one way humanity is to learn to deal with the
nano-future rationally; and that is to become scientific; and, there's only one
way to make humanity scientific; to put it in an environment where it grows up
knowing it better by scientific about things, and that is out in space. One of
Eric Drexler's last chapters of his 'Engines of Creation' book is about
'avoiding' lazyness, stupidity, and evil' more or less; out in space, we can
certainly avoid two of those; and I would say with the cloaking and brain
reading technologies, we can avoid most evils; and, out in space, I think most
and almost certainly all given enough time, social groups will learn how to see
that there's something bigger than their small petty concerns they learned how
to fight over on Earth.