[extropy-chat] Still confused:)

[Jay Dugger]

Thursday, 31 August 2006

On 8/31/06, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 8/30/06, Anna Taylor <femmechakra at gmail.com> wrote:
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[snip]

>  Side note to PJ -- you are correct regarding "bilingualism".  We need a lot
> more "popular"
>  work explaining these ideas to people in easy to understand terms [1].  I
> would suggest a
>  strong emphasis on ideas built into people -- desire to survive, desire to
> live freely,
>  desire for ones children to have the best opportunities, etc.   If you
> translate TH ideas
>  into those terms they will sell themselves.
>
[snip]

Anders Sandberg's recent mention of a transhumanist joke collection
might serve as a popularizing vehicle, assuming it doesn't entirely
consist of in-jokes and that the collection proves easily accessible.

So remember that when you make submissions!

-- 
Jay Dugger
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