Re: The "human meaning" meme

Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:03:30 -0000

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From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com> To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com> Date: 06 January 1999 05:42
Subject: Re: The "human meaning" meme

>The best reply is probably: "There is good in human nature, but there
>is evil as well. Transhuman is human plus, not human minus."

While I would normally shirk from a philosophical discussion in this sort of forum - could you please define 'good' and 'evil' in absolute terms? I'm curious as to wat you mean by them.

Samael