From: Max More (maxmore@primenet.com)
Date: Wed Aug 21 1996 - 00:48:33 MDT
My thanks to Tom and Eric for their comments. As I get to work on the
Principles 3.0 more, I'll ask for more feedback.
At 09:01 PM 8/20/96 -0700, Eric Watt Forste wrote:
>I take it that notions such as "limitless improvement" or "unlimited
>progress" necessarily imply self transformation, and that this can be
>explained in the accompanying text, right? I can see some advantages of
>dropping self transformation from the mnemonic set, but I'd hate to abandon
>the idea entirely.
Exactly. Self-transformation would be one of the major ideas coming under
"Limitless Improvement" or "Boundless Improvement". ST would be one of the
main sub-parts of that principle.
>At 8:48 PM 8/19/96, T0Morrow@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>LI = limitless improvement
>> SO LIBIDO!
>
>I do prefer the phrase "limitless improvement" to the phrase "boundless
>improvement", but I'm a bit wary of the proposed mnemonic.
I'm also wary of the mnemonic. It makes you think too much about something
hardly central to the principles. I do like "limitless" instead of
"boundless" though. While "boundless" is effective, Eric has an excellent
point about the annoying tendency of people to invent/confuse a principle of
"boundless optimism".
>I'm wary of this particular mnemonic because extropians are already being
>accused of being sex maniacs in other forums.
Or else of hating sex and anything physical!
>I like "unlimited progress"... it's frank and to the point, and ties
>extropian ideas a little more closely to their classical-liberal roots than
>"limitless improvement".
I prefer "improvement" though I'll consider "progress".
>I don't care for "boundless evolution" at all, because I think it's
>important to keep the biologists, who realize that "evolution" is a
>value-neutral term.
I agree. I considered "evolution" for a second but immediately rejected it.
Upward and Outward!
Max
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