I’m hoping we’ll find out in the next post, but I would guess the answer is “yes” via general semantics having an impact on science fiction writers who had an impact on transhumanism and the extropians out of which SL4, Eliezer, and this whole thing grew such that even if it wasn’t known at the time the ideas were “in the water” in such a way that you could make a strong argument that they did.
I’m hoping we’ll find out in the next post, but I would guess the answer is “yes” via general semantics having an impact on science fiction writers who had an impact on transhumanism and the extropians out of which SL4, Eliezer, and this whole thing grew such that even if it wasn’t known at the time the ideas were “in the water” in such a way that you could make a strong argument that they did.