[extropy-chat] Transhumanist arrival?

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

Robert Bradbury wrote:
> Some days something happens that almost makes you fall out of your chair...
> 
> Believe it or not "Transhumanism" is the *featured* article of the day 
> (2 Jun 2006) on Wikipedia [1,2].  Sure we can get air time at Stanford 
> but it strikes me as a sign of having "arrived" when what is effectively 
> the World's encyclopedia features a topic near to ones heart, if only 
> for a day, as the lead article.
> 
> Maybe there is a god...

Just so you know, Jimmy Wales is a former subscriber to SL4.

E.g:  http://sl4.org/archive/0105/1398.html

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence