From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 18:08:36 MST
Natasha writes, addressing me, Lee Corbin
> 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."
> Lee, what are you talking about? What do you mean
> that extropians and transhumanists are a different
> group of people. Extropians are transhumanists.
> If you mean ExI is not interested in dealing with
> this, state it.
I'm not even sure what ExI is the way you're using it here;
what I was bemoaning was that these issues don't get the
critical examination on this list that they once did.
Lee Daniel Crocker explained it well:
> 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.
Yes, I meant no such separation, except as perhaps by
who posts to what lists. It's pretty obvious that
extropians are a kind of transhumanist movement, and
I appreciate that Olga and others saw that logically,
my wording was not incorrect. But sorry I caused the
confusion.
I remain completely ignorant of what goes on on the
Transhumanist list. (If I had more spare time, then
I would study SL4 anyway, not that.) I have only
gathered that every defect one can perceive about
this forum is greatly magnified there. If anyone
knows better, please enlighten me.
I don't mind anyone being picky about terms while the
meanings are still inchoate.
Lee
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