How will you implement this policy? You can present the milder aspects of
these ideas to non-transhumanists but then, when they look at your web
sites or literature, they will see all those wild ideas. How do you plan to
segment the market? Will you set up different web sites and print different
literature for the different audiences? If so, how do you prevent
crossover? (A quick web search and the non-transhumanists will find the
explicitly transhumanist sites.)
The public image and presentation issue is tremendously important for the
future of our ideas. Apart from Anders' comments on the above questions, I
encourage everyone else to offer suggestions. How do we find the optimal
path between being boring/blending in with other ideas, and standing
out/looking scary.
I'm facing this issue very clearly now as I write my book The Augmented
Animal. I don't want to tone it down yet I'm trying to make the ideas
appealing and reasonable to the average reasonably intelligent reader who
hasn't heard of many of these ideas before. (A tough and smart editor helps
with this!)
Onward!
Max
Max More, Ph.D.
more@extropy.org
http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore
President, Extropy Institute: exi-info@extropy.org, http://www.extropy.org
EXTRO 3 CONFERENCE on the future: http://www.extropy.org/extro3.htm