From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 12:24:30 MST
J. R. Molloy wrote:
> Extropians may be a subset of transhumanism, but aren't both of them
> subsets of extropy (extropy meaning anti-entropy or negentropy)?
Extropy doesn't mean negentropy. Extropy is a normative term; entropy
is a physical variable.
But, more generally, adopting transhumanism generally tends to provoke
rather strong views about what society should look like. While
extropians envision society with increasing extropy, there are a heck
of a lot of transhumans who are technocratic, socialist, fascist,
liberal democrats, conserative republicans, etc. (This is not name
calling; most of those who are, for example, transhuman fascists
self-identify that way.) Calling these views extropic is misleading
at best.
Unfortunately, the FAQ is down at the moment; otherwise I'd quote the
FAQ answer on this.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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