[extropy-chat] The emergence of AI

[Samantha Atkins]

How does your uniqueness require the same lack of control and options as 
you experience now?   If you are unique now then you will use greater 
options most likely in rather unique ways, yes?  I really don't see how 
more choices will lead to less uniqueness.  If anything I would expect 
it to lead to more unique individuals (and groups for that matter)  than 
today.

-s

Walter_Chen at compal.com wrote:

> In the future transhuman age, if you can change whatever (including 
> the genes, or
> so-called neuronal editor, or even your face/personal characters etc.) 
> you want,
> then what makes you still the unique you?
>
> Thanks.
>  
> Walter.
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hara Ra
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 1:27 PM
>
> > ... There is a whole selection of levels of plasticity, from
> > recalling a new phone number to my genes. As far as I can tell, some 
> levels
> > get installed in early babyhood and that's it. As a cryonicist, I 
> hope to
> > get a neuronal editor and eventually make changes which cannot be 
> done at
> > the present.
>
> > Though it is very hard to really realize when something is basically
> > hardwired, there is also a kind of liberation - there is no need to try
> > changing things one lacks tools for. I can focus my limited energy 
> in the
> > possible. I hope the cryonics will work, so the possible is larger.
>
>
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