[extropy-chat] Consciousness vs. awareness [was: I keep asking myself...]

[Russell Wallace]

On 4/7/06, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interestingly enough, the conclusion that I did reach, for communicating
> non-SOP ideas to the masses was/is actually implemented.  The U.S. is
> spending on the order of $70 million/year to broadcast a semi-legitimate
> non-Islamic view of reality into the Middle East (this was documented on one
> of the major news channels about a month ago).
>

Sounds good to me - I'm certainly in favor of spreading democracy by
nonviolent means.

I would love to know the realistic cost of putting a few million people
> (hard core fundamentalists of any cloth) into cryonic suspension (one has to
> account for economies of scale).  I suspect it wouldn't be *that*
> expensive.  Don't kill them (as in destroying their meme set) -- simply
> prevent them from propagating those meme sets until such time as they can be
> presented to an impartial jury as being valid or invalid.
>

Cost? Money isn't the issue, the money can be found if there's enough motive
to do so. The cost is that most of the world would see it as the equivalent
of the Holocaust (and how sure are you that they'd be wrong? it's not proven
that people frozen with today's cryonic procedures can and will be brought
back); think about what the cost in lives would be by the time all the
consequences, direct and indirect, had worked themselves out.
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