[ExI] Social justice and transhumanist

[Giovanni Santostasi]

Too many transhumanist embrace capitalistic ideals. I think we should be
associated with social justice and equity. I think these would bring the
singularity faster than unchecked capitalism and liberalism. Here a nice
article on how the Scandinavians overcame the 1 % :

http://www.truth-out.org/how-does-1-exploit-america-find-out-1-minute-video/1329436217?q=how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-one-percent/1327942221


Giovanni



On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 2:43 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *>…* *On Behalf Of *Stefano Vaj
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] How many transhumanist****
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> 2012/2/19 Giovanni Santostasi <gsantostasi at gmail.com>****
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> >…How can we make more appealing our ideas? We cannot change the world
> without the numbers…
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> Think about this for a minute before you dismiss the notion: the way we
> increase our numbers is by increasing our exposure, and the surest way to
> do that is not to make our ideas more appealing, but rather to make them
> less so.  We make the ideas threatening to a particular segment who already
> has a following, such as some widely known and perhaps widely disliked
> religion, then have them criticize transhumanism.  We increase numbers by
> becoming controversial, not by becoming appealing.  The transhumanists out
> there who have never heard of us will come, regardless of appeal.****
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> Hollyweird discovered this a long time ago.  It was once believed that
> negative publicity is better than no publicity.  Now,negative publicity is
> better than positive publicity.****
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