From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 04:58:20 MST
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 04:52:02PM -0500, Nathanael Allison wrote:
>
> Curious to know something about people on this list. Although this isn't
> directly an extropian topic is still important. I have found that people
> almost never live what they preach. This is sort of taboo even on this
> list. Topics such as family, sex, friends, and hobbies. Although science
> gives us many awnsers to these question it seems very impractical to go
> along with them when pertaining to our social identity. There has to be
> some type of compromise both ways. What kind of lifestyles today would be
> the most extropian? In the future?
I would say an extropian lifestyle is an individually driven
lifestyle. You live the way you do because you want to, and you
know and accept why you want it. Just as we can change the way we
life to suit our desires, we can also (although it is far harder)
change some of our desires to better fit our deeper values.
This has little to do with science and technology; I think one can
live a very extropian life without the latest gadgets, the
important thing is to know what ends they are for (including, of
course, the aesthetics many of us appreciate in elegant
technology).
Also, an ordinary hobby or other activity can be turned into
something extropian. My roleplaying hobby has evolved into both
scenario planning, networking with interesting people and
educating/discussing with them about future and present
technologies and political issues. It is still something that is
fun and stretches the imagination, but it has also become
something more. I think that is the key to making things
extropian: they become more than they were.
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