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

[Samantha Atkins]

On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:31 AM, Technotranscendence wrote:

> 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?
>

I don't think we have figured out a truly extropic pollitics yet.   
But for now I see nothing better than at least some flavors of  
libertarianism.   I am open to suggestions.

- samantha