Silvermoon Meeting: Launch of the Order of Cosmic Engineers in World of Warcraft

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The Order of Cosmic Engineers, pre- announced at The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future conference in Second Life on June 5, 2008, was launched yesterday June 14, 2008, at the Silvermoon Meeting in World of Warcraft. Read the Prospectus of the Order of Cosmic Engineers, collaboratively authored by the Order’s founding members. See also Bainbridge’s Cosmic Engineers wiki. A picture of the event is above, there are more picture and a chatlog here.

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I am very pleased to see that the first top blogger to comment on the launch of the Order has been one of my favorite writers. In an article about the Singularity, Charlie Stross writes:

Now the rapture-nerds have indeed begun to codify their beliefs. Allow me to introduce you to the Order of Cosmic Engineers. It is their intention to “joyfully set out to permeate our universe with benign intelligence, building and spreading it from inner space to outer space and beyond.” And they explain:

The Order is, at the same time, a transhumanist association, a space advocacy group, a spiritual movement, a literary salon, a technology observatory, an idea factory, a virtual worlds development group, and a global community of persons willing to take an active role in building, in realizing a sunny future. As engineers, we aim to build what cannot be readily found. Adopting an engineering approach and attitude, we aim to turn this universe into a “magical” realm.

There’s a lot more where this came from — indeed there’s a whole huge prospectus, awaiting release next Sunday (which will be accessible here); Their formal launch event will be hosted by the Science Guild in World of Warcraft on June 14 at noon EST. I’ve seen an early draft of the prospectus, and it is indeed something special. Let’s just say for now that I await its publication with interest: it’s bad manners to critique an early draft of divine scripture before it’s launched.

See also the very interesting comments thread. Note that Charlie’s own comments are not so positive at this moment.

Posted by G.P. on 06/14 at 06:42 AM
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