[ExI] Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit

Anders Sandberg anders at aleph.se
Tue Jun 19 17:04:21 UTC 2012


On 19/06/2012 17:20, spike wrote:
> The meta-observation here is that no one has ever really derived a good
> universally accepted definition for libertarian, consequently it is a
> mixture of a lot of different things.

There is a really good section of David Friedman's "The Machinery of 
Freedom" where he skewers libertarians trying to come to an axiomatic 
definition of what the core libertarian idea is. It is pretty evidently 
a thick mix of values. Not unlike transhumanism.

-- 
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University




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