From: Hughes, James (james.hughes@trincoll.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 09:43:08 MDT
Natasha wrote:
> if WTA had joined forces with ExI rather than try to compete, we would
> have
> had a much larger community that would have been more diverse and
> copacetic
> to transhumanist goals.
What did you have in mind Natasha? I'm sure we're game. I think if you
look at the WTA website you'll see far more links to ExI and mentions of
Max and yourself than there are links to the WTA from the ExI website,
or mentions of our leaders and writers.
Benoit also wrote:
> We'd rather remain a distributed intelligence,
> mostly leaderless, and a natural leadership of the collectiveness of
our
> beings will pop up in the long term as technology integrates.
Strong organizations are one necessary and inevitable constituent of any
movement, which is by definition a distributed leadership,
multi-organization, cultural phenomenon. Organizations and the diffuse
movement feed one another, and each had its role.
So I applaud Natasha's efforts to build ExI (really!) and of course
think we need a much stronger WTA if we are to help shape the kind of
future we all want to see.
James J. Hughes
WTA Secretary
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