Re: Extropian Principles 3.0: Final (?) version now up

From: Max More (maxmore@globalpac.com)
Date: Sun Oct 25 1998 - 10:43:57 MST


At 03:25 PM 10/24/98 +1300, you wrote:
>
>"as with all the links in my bookmarks, I do not necessarily agree with
>all the sentiments expressed therein. For example in the Extropian
>Principles 3.0 and The Journal of Transhumanism, the term 'economic
>growth' relies on capitalism and a price system which to my way of
>thinking are at odds with a public-AI decentralised data fusion, Survey
>Society.

You've lost me here. How does the term "economic growth" rely on any
particular system? "Economic growth" means no more than an increase in the
total measurable output of an economy. It does not specify how that economy
is organized. The current version of the Principles does not even mention
the price system.

Puzzled,

Max

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