From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 (gpmap@runbox.com)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 02:56:20 MDT
Yes Bryan posts were very interesting, and with me they did achieve their
objective to cast some shadow on a worldview in danger of becoming too
inflexible.
I do not agree with everything. In particular concerning the feasibility of
"ultratechnologies" I think Bryan counters the excessive optimism of others
with excessive pessimism.
The very valuable core ideas that I retain from his posts are: that our
posthuman future is not inevitable but, as everything else, depends on what
is done to achieve it and how it is done; that some are not scared by
advanced technology in itself, but by our own embracing them at times
overenthousiastically and uncritically; that besides hoping in a super
future we need to go out in the world and do feasible and useful things.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Broderick" <damienb@unimelb.edu.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 6:08 AM
Subject: Bryan Moss's recent posts
> I regard these posts by Bryan as perhaps the most worthwhile,
appropriately
> disturbing interventions in the discourse of the list for the last couple
> of years. I urge everyone to think long and hard on the perspective he
> presents (even as I disagree with quite a large part of his critique).
>
> Damien Broderick
>
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