Re: White Power Transhumanism?

From: Rüdiger Koch (rkoch@rkoch.org)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 12:40:59 MDT


Hmmm. The homepage has a symbol that looks like a variation of the Nazi
symbol to me. They also seem to have a very elitist view on things:
<QUOTE>
So what's the moral of the story here? Well, make sure that you're one of the
first Powers, obviously, but more on that later.
</QUOTE>

But that quote raises an interesting question I have never thought about yet:

Could the Singularity happen as a paranoid arms race of augmentation devices
where everybody tries to stay on top of the development because all those who
fall back will not perform well enough to make enough money or so to get into
the lext level? And whoever falls back too much will simply be trampled down?

Hope you have some good points against that!

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 15:17, Max More wrote:
> At 11:14 PM 4/8/2002 -0700, Zero Powers wrote:
> >Maybe you guys saw something I didn't. But I didn't come away with the
> >impression that it's a white power site.
>
> Same here. I checked out the site and didn't see anything to indicate such
> a nasty view, though I didn't scan everything. I thought it was disturbing
> for other reasons. I would appreciate a pointer to any real indicators of
> white power/racism.
>

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Rüdiger Koch
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