Re: Happy Holidays

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 08:44:31 MST


"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:

> > On the day December 25, 1642, Isaac Newton was born.
>
> Did anyone ever compile a transhumanist calendar?

You mean something like August Comte's positivist calendar?
http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/comte.html

I think it will quickly get dated. However, I think something like the
Swatch beat combined with Vinge's use of kiloseconds, megaseconds etc
might become useful (except for those pseky relativist corrections).

I did a small list of transhumanist holidays at
http://www.algonet.se/~aleph/Trans/Cultural/Fun/holidays.html

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