Comments on: Applying Transhumanist Morality to Career Choices http://www.embracingchaos.com/2006/11/applying_transh.html Analysis of Trends in Technology, Business, Society Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:52:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Embracing Chaos » Blog Archive » One Laptop Per Child: What I missed at CES - Leo Parker Dirac on Business and Technology Trends http://www.embracingchaos.com/2006/11/applying_transh.html/comment-page-1#comment-624 Embracing Chaos » Blog Archive » One Laptop Per Child: What I missed at CES - Leo Parker Dirac on Business and Technology Trends Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:53:58 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2006/11/applying_transh.html#comment-624 [...] absolutely love this initiative.  I consider contributing to it to be one of the most moral things anybody can do with their lives.  It is one of the only means I can foresee that could [...] [...] absolutely love this initiative.  I consider contributing to it to be one of the most moral things anybody can do with their lives.  It is one of the only means I can foresee that could [...]

]]> By: Adam Rakunas http://www.embracingchaos.com/2006/11/applying_transh.html/comment-page-1#comment-411 Adam Rakunas Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:40:00 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2006/11/applying_transh.html#comment-411 <p>"Convincing a few people to change their votes really doesn’t matter much because the aggregate political mood has a will of its own."</p> <p>Disagree with you there, dude. In a lot of the smaller local races from this cycle, the difference came down to a few hundred votes. Policies on the local level can magnify into giant issues on a macro, and today's local pols are tomorrow's Senators. Changing the overall political culture in places like Montana or Ohio means working your way from the bottom up, and that means doing the boring, unsexy work of making phone calls, knocking on doors and attending meetings.</p> "Convincing a few people to change their votes really doesn’t matter much because the aggregate political mood has a will of its own."

Disagree with you there, dude. In a lot of the smaller local races from this cycle, the difference came down to a few hundred votes. Policies on the local level can magnify into giant issues on a macro, and today's local pols are tomorrow's Senators. Changing the overall political culture in places like Montana or Ohio means working your way from the bottom up, and that means doing the boring, unsexy work of making phone calls, knocking on doors and attending meetings.

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