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hplusmagazine.com - 8/2/2009
Transhumanist/Singularitian Political Food Fight
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RU Sirius It starts, apparently, with an essay by Peter Thiel -- PayPal founder and generous fund provider to many transhumanist projects including the Singularity Institute for Advanced Intelligence (SIAI) -- published in CATO Unbound, the periodical of the ...

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Publicity Explosion due to Political Tussling, Answering Bruce Sterling
Accelerating Future — ... Wow, maybe we should debate about politics more often. The recent bickering over politics between me, Mike Treder, and Phil Bowermaster has been making the rounds on h+ magazine, ...

Are Libertarian Futurists Stuck in the Nineteenth Century? [Quote Of The Day]
io9 — ... Browermaster got the last word: One area where transhumanists consistently disappointment me is politics. We can talk about accelerating change and singularities and human enhancement and the possibilities are endless, but when the subject comes to politics, everyone seems to revert to one of a very small number of philosophical templates, most of them created in the 19th century or earlier. And for some reason those are inviolate. Read about the whole kerfuffle on H+. ...

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