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buybuydandavis comments on Solstice 2015: What Memes May Come (Part II - Atheism, Rationality and Death) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 07 November 2015 11:45:41PM *  1 point [-]

Harry's meme for the Solstice:

And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it; and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!

Comment author: Raemon 08 November 2015 02:51:33AM *  2 points [-]

Remember that the particular goal here is something that non-transhumanists would not find alienating.

There will be various ways that the Solstice will address transhumanism (I'll discuss in the next post my current plans to approach humanism and transhumanism), but for this post I'd like to engage the "If my ideological opponents were crafting the Solstice with memes they found meaningful, what process would I want them to be using?" mindset.

Comment author: Raemon 08 November 2015 06:49:00AM 2 points [-]

(That said, I do think I want the Solstice to do a better job of capturing why the stars represent the future, and what exactly that could mean)

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