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Re: First meeting of European Transhumanist Associations

Dirk Bruere — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:40:54 GMT

My point of view is rather different. A Transhumanist is someone who wants to technologically enhance all aspects of "Human" to "PostHuman", and supports all

Re: First meeting of European Transhumanist Associations

estropico — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:20:06 GMT

Some of you might be wondering what I think of this initiative from the Italian Transhumanist Association (AIT), being Italian myself, so here we go... First

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Dirk Bruere — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:16:26 GMT

I agree totally. With abundant cheap energy we can do almost anything. Dirk 2009/11/24 Asam Bashir ... -- Homepage: www.neopax.com [Non-text

First meeting of European Transhumanist Associations

Giulio Prisco (2nd email) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:04:19 GMT

http://cosmi2le.com/index.php?/site/first_meeting_of_european_transhumanist_associations/ On Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November, 2009, we had the first

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Asam Bashir — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:38:22 GMT

The real root problem is finding a source of sustainable energy - once that goal is achieved then other problems start going away. In mature developed

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

ChstnPhil — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:22:17 GMT

If we are overrun by wizards, does that mean we face a Malfoysian crisis? I'll get my coat... ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

nebathenemi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:23:52 GMT

... I've just borrowed a friend's stash of Extropy magazine, and sure enough in issue #15 (2nd-3rd quarter 1995) there's a jokey article "Godling's glossary"

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Bruce Adams — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:27:19 GMT

... I've seen some unappetising recipes involving soy milk and tofu. As it happens I like some of the various milk alternatives. Soy, Oat, Almond and Hazelnut

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

bbenzai — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:00:39 GMT

... Oh, yeah. But, have you ever tried to make cheese from it? :> That stuff is (supposed to be) designed to feed babies, not make cheese. I should probably

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Bruce Adams — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:29:30 GMT

... Artificial milk has been around for yonks. Didn't you grow up on SMA? What about all those adverts "should you choose to move on from breast milk?" etc.

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Bruce Adams — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:25:00 GMT

... I'm not sure that's a useful question in the long term. At the moment we use biodiversity and our incomplete of understanding about ecosystems as an excuse

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

bbenzai — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:16:10 GMT

... In theory, yes. My concern is that we don't know enough about all the external things that are essential to that hectare of land which aren't contained

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Julian Morrison — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:41:48 GMT

The biggest problem is probably that you would have to properly solve the problems of the Third World - and those are nearly 100% political - worse, they are

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Dirk Bruere — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:22:40 GMT

It is quite straightforward to grow vegetables intensively at around 250 tonnes per hectare in a closed environment. All you need is water, sunshine and

Re: Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Anders Sandberg — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:17:00 GMT

... I don't think it is well-defined. In general ecologists find that diverse ecosystems are more resilient than less diverse ecosystems to environmental