[extropy-chat] Politics: Extropian party

[Jay Dugger]

Adrian Tymes wrote:

> --- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> 
>>Found the transhumanist party?
> 
> 
> Would you believe the Extropians were, in at least one
> widely-consumed piece of science fiction, a major
> political party?  (At least, one of the two major
> parties was called the Extropians, and its beliefs
> were not that different from ExI's official
> philosophy.)

Which piece of science fiction? Steele's Jericho Iteration and some of 
his other fiction mention Extropians, but not with fidelity nor as a 
political party.

Pretty far from the meat of your post, but I took a New Year's 
resolution to discuss politics less.

-- 
Jay Dugger