[extropy-chat] Re: Nam

[Dirk Bruere]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
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>>Mike Lorrey wrote:
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>>>--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Well, if we are going to chat about 'diversity', shall we ask what
>>>>>the point is of diversity? 
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>>>>Er... freedom.
>>>>Most especially so when we transcend our biology.
>>>>I would have thought a libertarian might have spotted that one - I
>>>>was wrong.
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>>>Diversity does not equal freedom. Forced protection of diversity is
>>>decidely anti-freedom, as the denizens of any American university
>>>campus can confirm. Diversity either exists freely because of the
>>>market, or it is not freedom enhancing. Government mandated
>>>diversity is little more than some thug holding multi-colored sock
>>>puppets up to the camera (with a gun in their backs, generally)
>>>for propaganda value.
>>>Stop conflating turds with sausages.
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>>So in your view there should only be *one* Trans/PostHumanity?
>>You aren't in favour of allowing a speciation ie diversification, to 
>>take place prompted by people like me?
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>I have no problem at all with what you propose. I have a problem with
>wasting stolen resources on uncompetitive species or cultures that
>consume more value than they produce, and regress more than they
>progress. Earn your way or evolve to do so.
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>The only trans/post-humanity I have a problem with are involuntary
>borg-like types. As such entities do not recognise the right of others
>to transcend as they wish, borgs do not have such a right (particularly
>as they are communities, not individuals).
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I have no such proiblems with hive minds.
I think that is what all groupings within a few light seconds will 
evolve into.
The future is of Earth and all planetary bodies is deep Red.

-- 
Dirk

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