From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2000 - 08:44:31 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
> > On the day December 25, 1642, Isaac Newton was born.
>
> Did anyone ever compile a transhumanist calendar?
You mean something like August Comte's positivist calendar?
http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/comte.html
I think it will quickly get dated. However, I think something like the
Swatch beat combined with Vinge's use of kiloseconds, megaseconds etc
might become useful (except for those pseky relativist corrections).
I did a small list of transhumanist holidays at
http://www.algonet.se/~aleph/Trans/Cultural/Fun/holidays.html
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension! asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/ GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:32:34 MST