[extropy-chat] A brief transhuman life, anyone?

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Eliezer Yudkowsky <sentience at pobox.com> wrote:
> Some have replied:  "Oh, you can't present me with
> that dilemma, there 
> *must* be an option C".  I think they don't realize
> how cruel the real 
> universe can be.  Tell it to humanity's dead.  The
> question is fair.

Neg.  The universe is unfeeling, true, but it plays by
certain rules.  It doesn't compassionately break them,
but neither does it cruelly break them.

Which means that if you set up a "transhumanist" life
in a manner that can at least be backed up and
restored, the universe isn't going to suddenly change
things so you can't restore the backup.  (Now, other
people might destroy your backups, but then you have a
choice to make more and/or prevent the destruction.
People can change their minds and be cruel all they
want.)