The politics of transhumanism/was Re: [extropy-chat] Re: Transhumanist short story

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On Monday, August 15, 2005 6:15 AM Samantha Atkins sjatkins at mac.com
wrote:
>> How about this:  we encourage political discussions so
>> long as they are of international interest.  A lot of
>> posters on this list are yanks, but it must be pretty
>> boring to the others to hear all the gory details of
>> the American political scene.
>
> Unfortunately the doings of the would-be empire
> are of quite serious potential consequence to
> +human folks everywhere.   We don't  generally go
> into all that much detail.  Instead we seem to do too
> much positioning, posturing and sniping offensively
> and defensively to be very fruitful.

How about this.  Talk about general principles that have an Extropian or
transhumanist import.  In this vein, since some have expressed a desire
to separate Extropianism from libertarianism, what non-libertarian (or
anti-libertarian) policies would be compatible with Extropianism?

Regards,

Dan
http://uweb1.superlink.net/~neptune/AnarchismJustified.html