[extropy-chat] silent night

[Samantha Atkins]

Interesting article.   It brings up a point I have made a few times.   
If all goes well the time will come when it is expected that anything a 
person experiences is remembered in perfect detail and capable of being 
shared in full fidelity with others.   Anything less would be directly 
un-extropic as it would be placing limitations on the fidelity and 
power of our minds.   From this it may follow  that any assumption of 
relative inability to fully remember and communicate in order to lock 
in profits is an un-extropic way of conducting business.    If legal 
restraints lock in such levels of inability then this is imho a 
criminally un-extropic exercise of force.

Intellectual property laws as they now stand do a poor job of actually 
rewarding innovation and have many devastatingly nasty side-effects 
including potentially outlawing our own future.   We need to do better.

The neurosecurity stuff is interesting.   If my brain is relatively 
open to would-be neuro-hackers isn't their brain and intention, much 
less action possibly obvious and capable of raising alarm?   This gets 
into issues of privacy inside our very heads which is another can of 
worms.   I sure as hell would not want some corporate CIO wonk deciding 
what patches to put in my brain just because I am doing some work for 
their corporation!    I especially would not want them or anyone else 
trying to draw rough analogies to guide actions on my head and 
capabilities from a much simpler and far less complex and delicate set 
of current security scenarios.  The suggested "solutions" here aren't 
even terribly workable at rather coarse granularities of software 
components.   VPN for the brain is one of the more shudderingly hideous 
ideas I've contemplated in a while.

- samantha








On Dec 22, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Max More wrote:

>
>> At 12:27 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:
>> Has everyone died and gone to Xmas?
>
> Damien,
>
> I'm not dead yet!
>
> In the course of reviewing materials for my ManyWorlds work, I 
> discovered this article in CIO magazine. Good to see the interest -- 
> and sophisticated interest at that:
>
> More Than Human
> Fred Hapgood
> CIO, 12.15.04
> http://www.cio.com/archive/121504/et_article.html
> http://www.cio.com/archive/121504/et_article.html?printversion=yes
>
> Transhumanism­the practice of enhancing people through 
> technology­sounds like science fiction. But when it arrives (and it 
> will), it will create unique problems for CIOs.
>
> Onward!
>
> Max
>
>
> _______________________________________________________
> Max More, Ph.D.
> max at maxmore.com or max at extropy.org
> http://www.maxmore.com
> Strategic Philosopher
> Chairman, Extropy Institute. http://www.extropy.org
> _______________________________________________________
>
> _______________________________________________
> extropy-chat mailing list
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat