[extropy-chat] What Human Minds Will Eventually Do

[Russell Wallace]

On 7/2/06, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I doubt if there will be 'people' or 'individuals' (in our present
> meaning of such terms) in the computronium state. Pioneers, colonists
> or explorers tend to be misfits of some kind in their society. As soon
> as humans can control / design their intelligence such misfits won't
> exist any more. Probably before uploading to solid state arrives.


Obviously "society chooses to exterminate all individuality" is a thriving
subset of dystopian-future fiction; and we've no way of knowing whether such
a scenario will come about in the future - but that is a very different
claim from the one that such a state of affairs is rational, let alone the
only rational option.

Do you want such a scenario to occur? If not, who do you think does want it?
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