## [EDU][D] "I am a transhumanist because I do not have enough hubris not to try to kill God."

* Author: u/AmeteurOpinions  *Finally, everyone was working together.**
* URL: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
* Score: 25

* Created: 2015-01-06T23:33:00

### Post:

[Link to content](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)

### Comments:

> **u/None** [+7]  (9 hours later)
> 
> The genre could be described as "non-fiction cosmic horror". 
> Not 100% sure it belongs here, but it's really good and thought provoking, so I guess why not?

> **u/AmeteurOpinions** [+6]  *Finally, everyone was working together.* (4 minutes later)
> 
> Extemely long, but contains a lot of good thoughts and links to even more good essays.

>> **u/Pakars** [+2]  (3 hours later)
>> 
>> It was definitely an interesting read. Thank you for linking it here. I'll have to spend more time reading the stuff it links to later, when I haven't been awake for thirty hours straight(My own fault).

> **u/None** [+1]  (2 days later)
> 
> I still don't get why everyone seems to love this piece.

> **u/None** [-2]  (13 hours later)
> 
> Educational?  [Really?](http://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/2cd5t4/meditations_on_moloch_a_remarkably_lovecraftian/cjf53ka)

>> **u/UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2** [+3]  (2 days later)
>> 
>> Archeologist fed up with Jared Diamond and people defending him dismisses OP's premise as basic, and his presentation as pretentious. If I found OP thought provoking and enjoyable, what's that make me?
>> 
>> In any case, thanks for linking to further discussion of the ideas that I enjoyed, and for indirectly sending me to a demolition a book I really enjoyed in high school, Guns, Germs and Steel

>>> **u/None** [-1]  (2 days later)
>>> 
>>> > If I found OP thought provoking and enjoyable, what's that make me?
>>> 
>>> A fairly ordinary person: vulnerable to mistaking eloquence for actual knowledge.

>> **u/AmeteurOpinions** [+1]  *Finally, everyone was working together.* (15 hours later)
>> 
>> Eh. Tags are for searching topics long past the front page, so I thought it was fine.

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