[ExI] [Cosmic Engineers] Re: YES! Hard-core transhumanist splinter groups yearning for cyber-heaven

[John Grigg]

Bryan Bishop wrote:
On many nights with my room mates, this
discussion has come up and we've made pacts to start a transhuman tech
team that doesn't have all the other bullshit that past organizations
have had. You know, to be isolated from whatever other troubles
inflict the current groups.
>>>

Good luck!

John  : )


On 6/17/10, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Jan Klauck <jklauck at uni-osnabrueck.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> --- quoting Giulio Prisco
>> YES! Let's form hard-core transhumanist splinter groups yearning for
>> cyber-heaven. Let's put some vision, imagination and FUN back into
>> transhumanism. Let's re-affirm the bold, fresh, uncompromising and
>> energizing transhumanism of Hans Moravec and Max More.
>> ---
>>
>> Wasn't OCE meant as such a group? Then you started this Turing Church
>> (nice name, BTW). How many more splinter groups do you intend to
>> start?
>
> Jan, thank you for bringing this up. My transhumanist friends and I
> wondered about this too. WTA has had political problems like crazy
> since inception- after all, it was perhaps created under idle
> speculation that "those damned extropians" were too radical. I
> continue to hear political issues throughout the community from one
> group or another, and then groups start splintering off, and it
> happens again, and again. On many nights with my room mates, this
> discussion has come up and we've made pacts to start a transhuman tech
> team that doesn't have all the other bullshit that past organizations
> have had. You know, to be isolated from whatever other troubles
> inflict the current groups.
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
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