From: alexboko (alexboko@umich.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 16:31:17 MDT
Anders Sandberg wrote:
> solutions, alternative strategies and plenty of surprises. Hence there
> is no reason to strive for monoculture but rather diverse cultures with
> certain biases. And I fully accept that the situation is symmetric with
> other people: there is room for overlaying our memetic radiations.
The 'certain biases' probably being something like rationality and
non-coercion, am I right?
But you know, I don't even mind individuals that don't share these
biases in our memepool... as long as they're a fringe rather than the
dominant force. In practical terms, if I could push a button that would
memetically-engineer all the religious fundamentalists, Nazis,
eco-luddites, and Communists into good little Extropians, I wouldn't do
it. 90% of them into Extropians? Then yes, I'd be tempted to push the
button, that's true. But I do not wish outright memetic extinction on
anybody, even those who are literally my worst memetic adversaries.
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