From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 14:56:45 MST
> (natashavita@earthlink.net <natashavita@earthlink.net>):
>
> You said in your post, "Although overly verbose, it raises
> many good questions that the transhumanists appear to be
> more concerned about than do extropians."
>
> Extropians are transhumanists. Alternatively, what you meant was "...that
> some transhumanists appear to be more concerned about than do extropians."
>
> You probably think I am being picky. I am. Why? Because somehwere,
> somehow, somone started separating out the meme transhumanist from
> extropian rather than including extropian in transhumanist.
>
> Do I care? Yes I do.
> Natasha
That was Lee Corbin, but I take your point. His lack of quantifier
is confusing, and may be intepreted by some to indicate disjoint or
unrelated sets. Likewise, your unqualified "Extropy is a
transhumanist philosophy" is unclear for the same reason--it can be
misinterpreted as stating an equivalence relation rather than a
subset. I'm just being picky in the other direction; I want to make
it clear that Extropians are a distinct subset of the transhumanist
movement without our own values and philosophies.
We don't really disagree here, it's just that you want to
emphasize common ground, while I think it's more important to
emphasize our differences.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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