From: Ramez Naam (mez@apexnano.com)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 14:28:44 MDT
From: Rafal Smigrodzki [mailto:rafal@smigrodzki.org]
> ### Again, the Golden Oekumene gives an example
>
> The number of ideas that John Wright got right in his books,
> is simply amazing.
Yes. Wright is doing an amazing job.
> > * - The notion of groups who are able to achieve high degrees of
> > internal transparency but are unable to achieve transparency with
> > members of other groups is actually rather disturbing. It
suggests
> > the possibility of more deeply embedded tribalism among
> > diverse future
> > entities, with all the ills that tribalism brings.
>
> ### Wouldn't you call it rather "speciation"?
Perhaps. Exactly what "species" means in a time of self-modification
and artificial reproduction isn't clear to me.
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