[hackerspaces] Guy I met is trying to build a unified transhuman group

[Willow Brugh]

The furthest back I can find the roots for H+ are in Russian Cosmism - not
Ray Kurzweil, who brought it into a sort of pop culture. Cosmism has really
strange, strange overlaps with religion in the same way the Mormon church
has a branch that is Transhumanist. I shit you not.

After years of being really invested in the H+ community, I got kind of
jaded. The idea of "in the Future, everything will work!" that prevails is
tiresome. It's what finally brought me to hackerspaces... people who are
actually making a future instead of privileged white kids sitting around
discussing what other people have built. Maybe it's changed by now. That
would be cool.

Willow Brugh // willowbl00 <http://blog.bl00cyb.org/>
Schedule a meeting with me <http://tungle.me/willowbl00>



On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 02:26, Paul Bohm <bohmps at gmail.com> wrote:

> guess so. i've always been, but didn't know before moving to SF since I
> never heard any of this stuff articulated while in europe. wouldn't hurt if
> someone who truly knows the subject gave an overview talk at a CCC
> camp/congress (or sent a mail summary here to start).
>
> you'd expect ideas to be more evenly spread with the internet and all, but
> that hasn't been my experience at all - it seems a lot of ideas are still
> very local.
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Matt Goodman <meawoppl at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Any other extropians on this list laughing at all?
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>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ryan/baslisks <baslisks at gmail.com> wrote:
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