Re: Public Relations (and the Extropian Elite)

From: CountZero (count_zero@bigfoot.com)
Date: Sat Jan 17 1998 - 23:27:34 MST


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At 09:34 PM 1/16/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 10:15 AM 1/16/98 -0800, Yak Wax <yakwax@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>I've been thinking about this "Extropian Party" idea, and I think we
>>should take a few things into account:
>>>snip
>
>I've a better plan, uplift octopodes and everything else, do all other
>kinds of research underground and create new technologies that
>the government can't control -- from new forms of money to new
>ways to communicate. Present faits accompli so that all the rest
>of humanity can do is live with it.
>
>This way, the effort you would've wasted on building the super
>state will be better used on making the stuff you need to
>ascend to posthumanity.
>
>A'bas l'etat!
>
>Daniel Ust
>
Bravo!!!

As an aside, to do these things, which I feel may be necessary, we (>H)
should cultivate contacts/partnerships with the existing hacker community.
Nanotech, as an example, can't be contained, but good control software
(maybe) can be.
Good to have a distribution network already in place, no?

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