[ExI] [Cosmic Engineers] Re: YES! Hard-core transhumanist splinter groups yearning for cyber-heaven

[Giulio Prisco]

Hi Bryan,

In this case the line along which the splinter is cut is not
political. Well, in some sense it is, because everything related to
people is, but it is not explicitly political.

Instead, it is defined by taking transhumanism seriously, including
its more radical and apparently far-out aspects. Some transhumanists
take immortality, mind uploading and the limitless evolution of our
species in a great cosmic adventure seriously, and some
"transhumanists" don't.

G.



On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jan Klauck <jklauck at uni-osnabrueck.de> wrote:
>>
>> --- quoting Giulio Prisco
>> YES! Let's form hard-core transhumanist splinter groups yearning for
>> cyber-heaven. Let's put some vision, imagination and FUN back into
>> transhumanism. Let's re-affirm the bold, fresh, uncompromising and
>> energizing transhumanism of Hans Moravec and Max More.
>> ---
>>
>> Wasn't OCE meant as such a group? Then you started this Turing Church
>> (nice name, BTW). How many more splinter groups do you intend to
>> start?
>
> Jan, thank you for bringing this up. My transhumanist friends and I
> wondered about this too. WTA has had political problems like crazy
> since inception- after all, it was perhaps created under idle
> speculation that "those damned extropians" were too radical. I
> continue to hear political issues throughout the community from one
> group or another, and then groups start splintering off, and it
> happens again, and again. On many nights with my room mates, this
> discussion has come up and we've made pacts to start a transhuman tech
> team that doesn't have all the other bullshit that past organizations
> have had. You know, to be isolated from whatever other troubles
> inflict the current groups.
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
>
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