From: Nicholas Bostrom (bostrom@mail.ndirect.co.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 27 1997 - 16:51:14 MST
Gregory Sullivan wrote:
> Nicholas Bostrom said:
> >Foundations of Transhumanism is a new web site that will provide easy
> >access to selected transhumanist material of an academic nature.
> [http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~transhumanism/welcome.htm]
> You may wish to add a link to Max More's doctoral dissertation which
> treats the topic of identity.
Good suggestion!
> Since you have a link to "Engines of Creation" you may wish to add a link
> to "Unbounding the Future":
I'm on a slippery slope. Unbounding the Future is distinctly popular.
EoC is popular too, but it is so damn brilliant that it is impossible
not to include it. I think I will abstain from UF.
> The case for examining transhumanist issues could perhaps be strengthened
> by referring to ongoing technical progress. Links to the full papers of
> the upcoming Fifth Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology are
> available:
> http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/index.html
I will have a think about that. What I think I want to avoid is
linking to anything I find interesting. There are already a number of
excellent transhumanist sites with hundreds of links (e.g. Ander's
and Mitch's). But some people when they come to a site might rather
want five or ten limks that lead to really good central texts. If
they want a more exhaustive bibliography they can use AltaVista.
Nick Bostrom
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb
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