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How much power do we truly have in making our ideas matter? My estimate that only about one in a million among us—about six thousand people in the whole world—has enough power to effect change on a global basis.
The way members or the red group stay put is by using the sentiments of the masses, and by adapting to the Zeitgeist and the technological change. They don't define it. They never did.
The way for us to make an impact is by discussing and educating about scenarios - spreading memes. Memes are way more powerful than people, even those with the most ressources at their command.
After all what do we want? We want certain outcomes that fit with our humanist values. We want to stir around existential risks, Nick Bostrom's evil Singleton or falling back into pre-modern society. The way to get there is making people aware of what's at stake.
To my mind a lot of transhumanists have done a great job on that so far.
Posted by Said Hamideh on 07/18 at 10:38 AM
seems like a good place to also weigh the effect that web 2.0 (mass society's latest vehicle) will have against the elite. Information is becoming freer than ever and information is power. Also, the masses now have the tools for the seeding, coordinating and development of ideas that elites will later be forced to address in terms unfavorable to them.
This leads to an interesting discussion about the future of net neutrality.
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