[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

[John K Clark]

"Emlyn" <emlynoregan at gmail.com>

> Pretty much all those same animals die of old age.
> [.] Yet, I'm not a big supporter of old age as a
> useful trait for the future of humanity.

At first I thought you were saying it would be preferable if we had no fear
at all about anything; but then I thought no, you can't possibly mean that.
Can you?  Absolute fearlessness would be as detrimental to survival as an
being incapable of being bored.

  John K Clark     jonkc at att.net