[Murg] who's the author(s) of the wikipedia article?

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Tue Jan 18 09:36:01 EST 2005


On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:55:10AM -0500, Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> I wish I knew how to track down authors in these wiki's.  Someone has 
> been going around defining christian transhumanism and linking it to 
> transhumanism all over the Internet with pointers to the WTA site.  

In theory, Wikipedia is equal-opportunity as far as content 
contribution is concerned.

We can put it to the test, by submitting own material, and adding
corrections. (Of course somebody has to ultimately decide, which content to
retain, if conflicting, so there's some personal bias somewhere, sometime).

> This started last summer during the big battle within the WTA board on 
> the question whether to promote a christian version of transhumanism as 
> a WTA PR tool.  Simultaneously, a lot of anti-extropian articles also 
> started appearing, seemingly being written in the same style as the 
> christian transhumanism articles.  One of the anti-extropian 

I'm pretty much turned off by all transhumanist institutions at this point,
unfortunately. 

> definitions as a false cult of pseudoscience actually got into 
> Stanford's latest edition of WordNet.

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