... My/our very active moderation. Let's at least try it that way. I have a very short list of people who will be moderated from the outset if they join. ... ...
I do not think they will come here. And if they come, strict rule enforcing about name calling should dismantle them at once. But, I am afraid that making this...
... Indeed. One of the ironies of the la affaire de Thezier et Carrico is that it made me hesitant to express critical ideas about Singularitarians and...
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Hughes, James J. ... I began to realize that the TL list just wasn't going to work ... I kept thinking I should unsubscribe...
Is this list intended as a place for random general discussion of TP topics? Or, conversely, for focused goal-oriented discussions of TP topics leading toward...
Well, it's difficult -- and probably unwise -- to try to prevent random general discussions from occurring. I'm not opposed to them taking place at all. ...
... own. OK, let's make a plan. I'd like to be able to post the random things I find that I think may be of interest here, as should others, but I also very...
BTW something that bugs me about posting to Yahoo groups is that most of the time it break my lines and looks ugly. Anybody know how I can fix that, either on...
... most of ... fix ... the ... advertising ... Yeah, as I try to reply to this it's breaking your lines. Someone on the extropian mailing list pointed out to...
I'm feeling quite optimistic. OK, also apocalyptic, but kind of apoco-optimist. Remember I'm no M-Ler, or Trot, but perhaps on May Day we can remember this...
http://ieet.org EMERGENCE Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies News for May 1, 2008 Editor: Dr. James J. Hughes ________________________________ ...
Thank you for making this open to the uninitiated. Because nothing warms people to you like pointing out their mistakes: - Amenfd the UNDHR and UN Genome...
I agreee completely. I was going to suggest that, but I assumed GM support was implicit. But GM food must be a point fro tp politics, we need to say loud and...
What about the intersection of law and VR? I'm not very knowledgeable in this area (I'm not even on Second Life) so I'm just throwing this one on the table....
I was part of an interesting conversation of late on the topic of AGIs and slavery. While everyone agreed that a true AGI should have the same freedoms that a...
... Hi Michael, I'm not convinced that utilitarian liscences happy slave robots, at least not more so than it does with genetically engineered human happy ...
... happy ... morally ... of ... should ... I agree with you completely. I used Utilitarianism in its simplest incarnation, one which almost no one uses as...
I think this is a key question. It is one of the questions that has convinced me we need a more robust theory of the dynamic personality (or range of dynamic...
In light of the growing concern over fundamentalism across the globe I found myself exploring Belief and Faith and why I never possessed these traits as they...
Interesting problem for me in defining the transhumanist/technoprogressive worldview is specifying how exactly atheism and scientific materialism relate to it....
When J wakes up on the UU/materialist-Buddhist side of his bed, I think he's probably acknowledging the benefits of membership in a community of like-minded...
I agree with Mike that there is a parallelism, sometimes conflicting, sometimes complementary, sometimes converging, between ideas and traditions of spiritual...
