From: dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu
Date: Wed Mar 17 1999 - 23:16:31 MST
Eliezer wrote:
> >And today's question is:
> >
> >Where do you want to live?
> >
> >Permutation City?
> >The Culture?
> >The High Beyond?
> >(I'm guessing these will be the top three.)
> >Or some creation of your own?
Without hesitation: The culture of the Aristoi. With the Banksian
Culture coming in second.
I suspect that especially extropian transhumanists would find the
institutions of the Logarchy implausibly statist, but seems to me that the
Aristoi actually had a civilization worth fighting for. (Banks seems to
think that Cultural institutions are spontaneous and practically
inevitable products of diaspora -- so this probably seems more congenial
to most transhumanists here and now.) Both utopias are nicely hedonic
lefty domestications of the singularity, tho' -- and I'm all for that!
Best, Dale
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Dale Carrico | dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric
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If you want to tell people the truth be sure to make them laugh.
Otherwise, they will kill you. -- George Bernard Shaw
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State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. -- Nietzsche
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