[extropy-chat] is spreading ones own genes relevant, or just an anachronism ?

[kevinfreels.com]

> >
> > I am informed by both my own (very powerful) instinctual urges and
> > tendencies, and by works of authors (such as Jared Diamond in The 3rd
> > Chimpanzee) that it is my goal to spread my genetic material, or
progeny,
> > as far and as wide and as varied as possible.
> >
> > This information suggest that I am a winner in this game/race in as much
> > as i spread my own genes, and a loser inasmuch as I do not.  In fact, JD
> > suggests in that book that the ultimate loser is the individual who
spends
> > energy raising the offspring of an non-relation instead of its own
> > offspring.
> >
> > So my question is:
> >
> > - in a post-technology, but pre-singularity world, should I be thinking,
> > on any level, about this particular progeny contest ?  Or is it, even
now
> > in a pre-singularity world, a hopeless anachronism ?


When you die, you lose. It doesn't matter if your genes persist.