I agree with the general principle that self-skepticism is vital, as a personality trait, for rationalism. However, I don’t think that a single written work necessarily gives very much evidence of its author’s self-skepticism; it’s common to make lots of objections and fail to put them in writing, or to put them in different places. I have also noticed that objections to futurist and singularitarian topics, moreso than other things, tend to lead into clouds of ambiguity and uncertainty which cannot be resolved in either direction, which don’t suggest such straightforward approaches as surveying people to find out about nets in use, and which take a lot of words to adequately deal with. (This last issue is especially relevant to your particular example; FAQs are a bad medium for long arguments, and while some links would be nice, their absence is not very informative.)
I agree with the general principle that self-skepticism is vital, as a personality trait, for rationalism. However, I don’t think that a single written work necessarily gives very much evidence of its author’s self-skepticism; it’s common to make lots of objections and fail to put them in writing, or to put them in different places. I have also noticed that objections to futurist and singularitarian topics, moreso than other things, tend to lead into clouds of ambiguity and uncertainty which cannot be resolved in either direction, which don’t suggest such straightforward approaches as surveying people to find out about nets in use, and which take a lot of words to adequately deal with. (This last issue is especially relevant to your particular example; FAQs are a bad medium for long arguments, and while some links would be nice, their absence is not very informative.)