[extropy-chat] On co-opting religion for >human ends

[spike]

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> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of John Calvin
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> 
> Take a moment, think about any fairy tales you read as a child, think
> about how they might be recast to portray >H in a positive light.


Damien has done that.  He wrote a very clever children's
story that was kinda based on a fairy tale of Jack and
the Beanstalk.  He figured out the physics of having a
nanotech-based satellite that would grow appendages
earthward and skyward from GEO.  I imagined nanobots on 
the space cable surface, passing carbon atoms or buckyballs
hand over hand sort of, out to the end of the beanstalk,
where another specialized nanobot would take the carbon
atoms and (somehow) fit them into a diamond crystal matrix,
not so very different from how a plant grows a branch.

I figure transhumanist memes will implant most easily
into the minds of children thru specially-designed
children's stories.  

It is so tragic that as we age, we not only lose our 
sight, we lose our ability to see what is possible.

spike