RE: Least Extropic Countries List

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Jan 06 2003 - 07:25:34 MST


On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, natashavita@earthlink.net wrote:

> Do you have the information for this? If so, we could easily implement
> it and have it on ExI's site with a colorized map reference.

My evaluation to date is very subjective (based on my on "personal"
global experiences). The NY Times article was quite revealing. I'm
sure there are people on the list who could do a better job at developing
an evaluation matrix than I. Things like Infant Mortality Rate (a measure
The Hunger Project uses) along with some of the measures used by organizations
like Amnesty International (e.g. freedom of the press) combined with some
more extropic measures (% of GDP invested in R&D?). There is probably a
PhD thesis in evaluating these from a historic perspective to determine
for which there is evidence that they drive the engines of development.

> To compliment this list and diagram, we could also illustrate what
> positive actions world countries are producing today in sync with a
> transhumanist future and also to resolve potential future conflicts
> affecting humanity.

Certainly. That is why the China efforts in developing cloning
laboratories are interesting.

> This would be an excellent reference guide and not just focused on
> downward trending countries, but also upward movement.

Yes, we shouldn't focus only on the negative.

> Thanks Robert. Do you want to solicit folks to work on it?

It isn't my focus, I just offer it up as something constructive
that people could easily work on. We often seem to get involved
in long drawn out esoteric debates. Having concrete criteria for
evaluating directions of subsets of humanity gives one a way to
focus attention (and potentially lobby for publicity for both
the good and the bad).

> Let's work on it and get it up on our site!

The ball is in your court.

Robert



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