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## [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)
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> Extemely long, but contains a lot of good thoughts and links to even more good essays.
>> **u/Pakars** [+2] (3 hours later)
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>> 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)
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> I still don't get why everyone seems to love this piece.
> **u/None** [-2] (13 hours later)
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> 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)
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>> 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?
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>> 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)
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>> Eh. Tags are for searching topics long past the front page, so I thought it was fine.
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