[extropy-chat] News: Want to clone your cat? Preserve your cadaver? Fly to space?

Adrian Tymes wingcat at pacbell.net
Fri Oct 22 23:15:21 UTC 2004


--- "natashavita at earthlink.net"
<natashavita at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B9036670F-4F75-4EF2-8D29-EC
> DE3AA72A74%7D&siteid=google&dist=google 

This is an example of what I was afraid would happen.
Note the emphasis being placed on current prices,
with little to no mention of the probability of costs
coming down over time.

I wonder if more people would buy into transhumanity
if the core philosophy was advertised as, "Let's make
everyone rich.  Not (just) in money (since if everyone
has more money then money isn't as valuable), but in
the ways that really matter.  Want more time?  So do
we, via longer lives - or in the time-per-day sense,
via robots and AIs to do the menial tasks for us (even
menial types of thinking, just like we already have
calculators for basic math) so humans can focus on the
things we want to focus on.  Want more gold?
Industrialize space and mine some asteroids.  Want
more of something we don't directly offer, like
spirituality?  Maybe money can't buy happiness itself,
but it can buy time for you to find happiness."

Viewed through this lens, even incremental advances
towards AI and nano-Santa (and other things
Singularity) become valuable steps in and of
themselves, whether or not the ultimate forms are in
fact possible.



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