Extropy by Kevin Kelly

[blackswan]

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/08/extropy.php

[Maro]

This is meta-physical drivel, and the guy thinks that 10^x + 10^y = 10^(x+y)

This should not be on HN.

[tdoggette → Maro]

Read Cool Tools, but not this. The whole blog is this kind of thing.

[blasdel → tdoggette]

He outsourced the writing of Cool Tools years ago.

[Confusion]

Extropy is neither wave nor particle, nor pure energy. It is an immaterial force that is very much like information.

Bullshit-O-meter: off the scale. Don't bother.

[carbocation]

I literally stopped reading after he spent an entire paragraph abusing all modern understanding of DNA. Stating repeatedly that it is made up of amino acids did not help his case.

[kragen]

There are some mistakes (DNA isn't made out of amino acids, for example) but the general thrust is interesting.