[ExI] H+ Census- why it matters to know if you matter.

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:01:03PM +0100, Anders Sandberg wrote:

> Ideally we should be able to calculate backwards: given some assumption  
> (for example based on other movements) of how many "lurkers" there are  
> to active people, one could make an estimate based on (say) sales of  
> Humanity+ Magazine.

I would estimate that some 0.1% of the general population in a typical
industrial country would qualify to be called tranhumanists. Some particular
locations (say, Bay Area) would run much higher (perhaps as high as 2-3%).