From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 02:35:33 MST
Thanks John!
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:00:12PM -0900, John Grigg wrote:
> I realize dreams of building a space colony for escaping the
>troubles of the Earth can be fun, but I wonder what concrete things
>we can do in the here-and-now to progress our agenda in the right
>way?
I would like to add a further thing to do: write!
Write letters to the editor of your local newspaper. Write articles
for the papers. Write academic papers and get them published. Write
books. Write novels, screeplays and comics. Write!
What we need is to both spread the awareness that our position exists
and is a valid position, and to refine it. Writing is a great way of
doing both. We really need well thought out essays on the things we
discuss here, both for outsiders to read and for our own sake -
having to explain a line of thought often forces us to refine it,
find further support and leads to the discovery of new implications.
It becomes easier to refer to transhumanist ideas, and a corpus of
text that newbies can read and critics comment upon (rather than just
their impression of what we are). It might seem that compared to
coming up with new radical technologies (or rearing children and
other worthy endeavours) writing about our ideas is a lightweight
activity. But if you do great things and nobody learns about them,
how much do these things matter to humanity at large?
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