} > Which requires defining what your idea of a better future *is*. Someone
} > from the Church of the Euthanasia believes they're working for a better
} > future, which happens to involve the reduction or extinction of the
} > human race. Are they extropic? Why not? They're pushing for a better
} > future!
}
} Excuse me! I'm working for a better future, which happens to involve
} the total extinction of the human race, albeit not the death of any
} individual human per se.
} I would say that these people are not Extropians - they are "noble
} Entropians", people who believe in a greater goal that simply happens to
The person I was responding to defined extropianism as working for a
better future. My objection is that the statement is vapid -- everyone
who worries about the future tries to make it better, in their lights.
Cypherpunks work for a better future with easy strong privacy; Brin is
forecasting a future with no privacy at all, and saying it will be
better if everyone can access all information.
Merry part,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix
Prowl, run, howl at the full moon
I can't do it right, don't know why I try.
Soon the moon will be rising
Oh woe is the life of a werewolf.