From: "Anders Sandberg" <asa@nada.kth.se>
> I consider that the most extropic way of handling these technologies.
Me too. But since "we now are essentially back to square one with the clipper
chip," the most extropic alternative available to us (and our allies) _now_ is
to infiltrate that "select controlling group" that you mentioned, because it
is very unlikely that we'll be able to persuade politicians to give clipper
chips equivalent user control to that enjoyed by owners of automobiles. So, if
you and Max More were on that "select controlling group" (and a controlling
group of some sort will almost certainly emerge to fill the vacuum of power),
why then I'd feel we're moving in the correct direction. Of course, "the ideal
controller is nobody" -- but you know that is not going to happen.
Stay hungry,
--J. R.
Useless hypotheses, etc.:
consciousness, phlogiston, philosophy, vitalism, mind, free will, qualia,
analog computing, cultural relativism, GAC, Cyc, Eliza, cryonics, individual
uniqueness, ego, human values
We won't move into a better future until we debunk religiosity, the most
regressive force now operating in society.
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