From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 02:58:28 MDT
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 02:24:23AM -0600, S. O. Terick wrote:
>
> Let's look at this situation from a practical perspective.
>
> What's the most avanced group on Earth
> and how do we get them to intercede on our behalf?
Isn't that *us*?
Personally I think a passive approach where we try to get somebody else
to do our work and our vision is very a bad idea. Sure, we need the
resources (brainpower, economy, diversity of opinion, raw materials) of
our entire civilization, but we can get that by convincing others that we
have good ideas worth listening to, implementing and selling. This is
different from finding some group to do all the job, since we would be
involved on all levels and actually be the ones doing all the important
interface work between vision and reality. If you leave it to somebody
else, why should they pursue *your* vision?
Sure, a few extropian billionaires wouldn't hurt, but the best way of
getting them is to turn ourselves into extropian billionaires. Or
millionairies. Or influential thinkers, renowned engineers, respected
politicians or just liked people.
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