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

[Matt Goodman]

Anyone interested should read Nick Bostroms history of
TH<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=12&ved=0CHgQFjAL&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jetpress.org%2Fvolume14%2Fbostrom.pdf&ei=_YJnT77yI6PKiQLBmv2DBw&usg=AFQjCNF_2MAksjV9IGMFmNSVYP-2p8ozfw&sig2=TzFGkjbGrbW-wbeIEcdMZA>.

--Matthew Goodman

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On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Willow Brugh <willow.bl00 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hasn't really changed.. the main orgs are completely dysfunctional
> and, somehow, still fundraising. There's no need to have "the best
> team" or "the best hackers" in non-profits, because philanthropists
> dump money for different reasons.. it's also why there's 100s of
> cancer orgs that do the same thing. Reminds me of that definition of
> insanity.
>
> disclaimer: served as R&D director at H+ for a while
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
> irc.freenode.net ##hplusroadmap
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