[extropy-chat] Extropy, Political Viewpoint and the Futureof ExI'sList

[Daniel Assange]

I think Max's point is that extropy is a political agenda to the same
extent that any agenda can be said to be political. Politics is the
method of interaction between groups of humans; and any viewpoint
governing the behaviour of individuals in a group will have a diffuse
effect on the group's behaviour as a whole. So you aren't really revealing
any new information by stating that extropy is a political agenda.

-- Daniel Assange <d.assange at ugrad.unimelb.edu.au>
   "The way to enlightenment is not to admit that
    you know nothing, but to admit that you
    can never know enough."

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Max More <max at maxmore.com> wrote:
> 
> > "Mike Lorrey" -- clearly the name is a political agenda.
> > 
> > "Mike" -- obviously chosen so as to assert the right to a loud public
> > voice.
> > 
> > "Lorrey" -- obviously intended as a variant on 
> > the English "lorry", implying a right to freedom 
> > of movement along public and private roads, and 
> > the right to transport large objects.
> > 
> > Some of your points below are accurate, but 
> > others are really stretching things, especially on "Rational
> > Thinking"
> 
> Really? So you advocate teaching intelligent design in public schools?
> Or do you insist on rational thinking, that only reasoned scientific
> theories of universal and human development be taught?
> 
> Please stop with the absurdist weaseling, it does you no benefit.
> Either accept that the principles are a political agenda, or rewrite
> them (once again).