queerqueerspawn asked: Why would you sometimes prefer to call that group "extropians"? I'm just asking because I'm unfamiliar with that...
cause it’s the earliest group that was a recognizable version of the clique, it was this transhumanist discussion group in the 90′s [link] which was where yudkowsky and robin hanson met, before they would go on to start the blog “overcoming bias,” and then yudkowsky started lesswrong as a spinoff of overcoming bias, and the rest is history. also the extropians were overtly libertarian/objectivist, so bringing up that the lesswrongers/”rationalists” have their roots in the extropian movement supports my argument that the politics of the lesswrong ideology is ultimately right-libertarian in nature.
but ideological “natures” just aren’t phyletic in this sense - otherwise right-libertarianism itself (for instance) could never have come to be
Ultimately we are all @-listers though, united in our opposition to the PC regadless of what differences there might be amongst us, if not better for it as we totally can show that the outer edges of the solar system have room enough for everyone by the brilliant method of “not hanging out on the same celestial object as the people you disagree with too much”. Autonomist Alliance solidarity forever!
1 month ago · tagged #shitposting #i'm talking about #eclipse phase #in case you couldn't tell #i guess i'd be extropian mutualist or something #at least if a genie told me i was going to be automagically transported to that universe #and could choose which people to hang out with #from behind a rawlsian veil of ignorance #and wasn't allowed to think too long about it #then those are probably the ones i'd go with #emigrating from titan because the oligarhyi need to get off my lawn #like move to the pc if you love it so much #i'd totally be a grumpy gerontarch #i was around in the 1000's and the original oligarhyi were really bad people #you kids don't know what you are larping #this is why we needed to get off the planet don't bring that bullshit here #fuck this and your democracy i'm moving to extropia at least they don't vote over there #except with their rep and wallets #which means that i can just disassociate with them if i disagree with the vote #good luck trying to do that on titan #but honestly tho i'd totally take titan over any actually existing country #it would be like would the transhuman utopia give everyone #free 3d-printers and free markets #or just free 3d-printers and somewhat free markets #i'm not going to be picky if i can have either one #i'm so not picky i'm willing to accept several variations on techno-utopianism #that is the non-pickiest thing ever · 9 notes · source: leviathan-supersystem · .permalink