Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Article on transhumanism on the leading Italian weekly magazine Panorama

From: Mike Lorrey <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:03:52 -0800 (PST)

Better yet, when people start asking of the opposition: "are you
offering a better deal?" we will know we are making real headway.

--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <[email-masked]> wrote:
> No rational argument against, more like a subliminal appeal to
> reacting instiictively against, but the article is not that bad you
> know. Following Fukuyama, the author agrees that we have to be taken
> seriously, and that maybe "our" future will even happen.
> One step at a time, we are already moving from "it is impossible" to
> "it is maybe possible but it is not a good idea". At some point we
> will reach "I always thought it was a good idea" (Clarke I think).
> G.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:08:16 -0600, Damien Broderick
> <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > At 03:33 PM 3/9/2005 +0100, GP wrote:
> > 
> > >Last sentence: "when someone will
> > >knock to your door to sell mind uploading, don't say that we did
> not
> > >warn you".
> > 
> > What's their argument against it?
> > 
> > Damien Broderick
> > 
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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

		
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