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Simulacra: The Proactionary Principle

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      CommentAuthorDanieru
    • CommentTimeMar 21st 2006 edited
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    People's freedom to innovate technologically is highly valuable, even critical, to humanity. This implies several imperatives when restrictive measures are proposed: Assess risks and opportunities according to available science, not popular perception. Account for both the costs of the restrictions themselves, and those of opportunities foregone. Favor measures that are proportionate to the probability and magnitude of impacts, and that have a high expectation value. Protect people's freedom to experiment, innovate, and progress.
    This was taken from The Extropy Institute's website which goes on to outline their view of this principle in some detail.

  2. What principles would you draft according to society's technological progress?
  3. Should there be limits?
  4. Does 'progress', as understood in this context, actually exist at all?
    • CommentAuthorwhat?
    • CommentTimeMar 22nd 2006 edited
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    Principle1: Everyone must read 'Politics and the English Language' by Orwell.
    Principle2: There are no limits
    Principle3: The concept of 'progress' is teleological.. Evolution is observable.
    Principle4: 'You'll be absolutely free, only if you want to be'- Zappa
    • CommentAuthorwhat?
    • CommentTimeMar 22nd 2006
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    One day I'll learn to make this machine do paragraphs
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      CommentAuthorDanieru
    • CommentTimeMar 22nd 2006
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    You don't think there should be technological limits?

    I can't decide on this one. Part of me tends towards accepting the role of the human mind in further manufacturing a technological universe, part of me mourns the passing of our more 'natural' heritage.

    I do believe that the eugenics movement, at the beginning of last century, set back our inevitable acceptance of human & technological symbiosis. And I guess that over the coming decades we will see just as many mistakes made as genetic manipulation and nano-technology come of age.

    But... as so often is the case... no pain, no gain.

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