[tt] [ExI] Today's Dilbert

[Mark Plus]

>Is there a sense of direction or progress in the transhumanist/singularitarian/AGI/Futurist/Extropian communities? I think there was...

People with this general outlook have to explain why the real 21st Century doesn't resemble all the "brochures" about it published in the latter 20th Century. Futurist visionaries active in the 1970's who influenced today's transhumanists, like Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, F.M. Esfandiary, Keith Henson and Jerry Pournelle, predicted that by now we'd L-5 and moon colonies, satellites beaming extra solar power to Earth, survivable cryonic suspensions and practical "immortalty." What happened to that future, any way?

Exploring these visions about what some now call the "paleo-future" has become an entertaining pastime.

"There was a time before reason and science when my ancestors believed in all manner of nonsense." (Narim on "Stargate SG-1")

Mark Plus

> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 23:17:47 +0200
> From: eugen at leitl.org
> To: tt at postbiota.org
> Subject: Re: [tt] [ExI] Today's Dilbert
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> From: "J. Andrew Rogers" 
> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 13:31:48 -0700
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] Today's Dilbert
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> On Oct 9, 2007, at 7:32 AM, Jef Allbright wrote:
>> While petty primate infighting over issues of status is
>> always ongoing, might the apparent recent surge on this and other H+
>> related groups be indicative of a decline in focus on external
>> objectives? Is there a sense of direction or progress in the
>> transhumanist/singularitarian/AGI/Futurist/Extropian communities? I
>> think there was...
>
>
> Individuals with a focus on external objectives do not have time to
> participate in primate mailing list games, so there is a selection
> effect. People doing don't have much time for the people talking and
> no time at all for the people engaged in petty arguments.
>
> This is the problem with mailing lists. Those with something worth
> saying rarely have time to say it.
>
> J. Andrew Rogers
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