[extropy-chat] Desirability of Singularity (was Are ancestor simulations immoral?)

[Harry Harrison]

> 
> We're soaring through the air, but our fuel is running out; either we
> ascend, or we die out like any other animal species whose evolved
> environment is long gone, and ultimately the sun turns the biosphere into
> a
> cloud of carbon dioxide and steam. I put it to you that the first option
> is
> self-evidently preferable.

If you believe in 'we'. Grinding me and or my children up for atoms so
corporations run by computers can populate the universe earlier seems
like poor outcome.