My Post to the "Illinois on the verge of Socialized Healthcare" thread on the Imminst.org forums
Posted on: 7-Jul 2007, 02:28 AM
I posted: I understand distrust of large, non-human scale bureacracies, but I don't understand selectively distrusting government bureacracies over corporate bureacracies. Nevertheless, I see some overly binary thinking in this thread. If we're going to maximize our odds of achieving immortality, I think we're going to have to elevate critical (which sometimes means nuanced) thinking over pet ideologies. We should be pragmatists first and foremost in my opinion. Sometimes an individualist or market-based approach may be best for our attempts to be immortal. sometimes a collectivist or non-market based approach may be more effective. I think what rationally should matter more to us should be the results (our immortality) rather than a battle over ideology. In my opinion, we can look at our minds as a medium in which memes are in competition, and the memes are not always beholden to our own interests in personal immortality. I'd like to see us at imminst.org give solid, unflinching primacy to maximizing our immortality odds, regardless of how the empirically best approaches align with our various ideological inclinations and affinities.
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