Mark Pesce at Burning Man 2006 : Part One

In this twenty minute rant, Mark Pesce sticks a fork into the Eschaton--it's "done." If the sky is falling and the world is ending in less than six years, how come no one is getting their affairs in order? Pesce recounts the Great Disappointment of the apocalyptic Millerite cult, touches on the ideas of Terence McKenna, lambasts Ray Kurzweil, discusses technological singularity, and discounts the idea of fabricated "artificial" intelligence (in favor of non-biological minds that are "grown").

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• 2012
• McKenna
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• Eschaton
• Pesce
• Burning
• Man

[filthyassistant]

LOL like a whip it! Mark rocks.

[noobenstein]

a fat shirtless man. Great.

[mpesce]

@tonrobson Odd. The data seems to be backing me up. So, how's that working out for you?

[tonrobson]

This guy just wrote and article how 3d it bad for your eye for so many reasons. Those who know how it works knows this is false. I think because of his work in virtual reality he felt stabbed in the back because he is now a part of the 3d come back, and therefore wrote this articles with a lot of lies in it.

[JNdigital]

sa wrong.. ha, just kidding. This series makes some good sense.

[somnambulant21]

How were the audience members able to focus on his lecture when he's standing on stage in a sarong with his belly overhang on display?

[patternsinchaos]

" They're ready to call this sick corrupt shallow unconscious mess that we politely call civilization, a failed experiment. And because we are ready to believe, we are ready to receive the word of the Eschaton. " Bravo!

[richidpraah]

being sceptical of it seems to be an underrating of onesself to an extreme degree to say the least..

[adbatstone]

I'm equally as skeptical of this 2012 crap and Kurzweil's Singularity (TM) as well.