From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 00:33:13 MDT
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Amara Graps wrote:
>
> It seems that some from the Stormfront White Nationalist Community
> are reading the extropians list and passing that information around.
Reading this list is no proof of sanity. Or pleasant views.
As James Hughes pointed out in his text about the politics of
transhumanism (and as I have repeatedly experienced myself),
there is a small cluster of people with transhumanism-like views
(i.e. an interest in technological transformation of humanity)
that overlaps with the eugenics/racist community. It just goes
to show that ideology matters: if transhumanism is viewed as
believing in transformative technology, then they are
transhumanists. If it is viewed as a continuation of the
enlightenment humanist tradition, then they clearly aren't.
I wonder what race uploads will be in their eyes? And when AIs
and humans get children, will they be "pure"? And what about
genetic enhancements that use genes from other species?
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