[ExI] Off topic or on? Group about Cryonics and Beauty, or not?

[Ben Zaiboc]

Kevin G Haskell <kgh1kgh2 at gmail.com> asked:

> To this fantastic group of intellectuals:
> 
> This is an essential group of thinkers regarding
> Transhumanism, etc.  But
> can we please try to restrain our comments to our two main
> points of the
> groups, which are:
> Effective and widespread cryonics at an affordable price for
> everyone and
> secondly, how to maintain and even vastly improve beauty and
> art...artful
> beauty, if you will, especially as it pertains to
> youthfulness?
> 
> I am in quite a few groups that are related to
> Transhumanism, and to
> Singularitarianism.  I have to say that this group is
> falling into a
> similar trap that they do, and that is to discuss "all' of
> the issues that
> pertain to both of those major issues.
> 
> Here, doesn't it make more sense that we focus like lasers
> on Max's goal of
> a superior, cheaper, more widespread version of Vanilla Sky,
> and second,
> that we focus on Natasha's focus that the Transhumanist
> future make new
> humanity beautiful and filled with style, no matter what
> their financial
> circumstance?
> 
> I don't mean to stir up anything here, I just mean that
> Facebook has made
> so many groups open to everything, and that this group might
> be better off
> focusing on what Max and Natasha are trying to keep it
> focused on:
> Widespread, effective cryonics (Max) and widespread,
> creative, and cutting
> edge H+ style and design (Natasha.)


So, no more talk about robots, space-based solar power, uploading, M-Brains, space elevators, existential risk, maths, physics, biology, philosopy, politics, sociology, bees, ants, computing, fiction, futurology, psychology, religion, logic puzzles, cosmology, and frickin' laser beams?

OK, gotcha.


Ben Zaiboc