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

[Harry Harrison]

No, but many seem to have a religious optimism about the singularity that defies rationality (for some reason I thought you were one of these people, forgive me). That which can dominate matter and energy thrives. Everything else is consumed or marginalised. This is one of the few things we can predict past a singularity and has good precedence in the best analogies we have todate, e.g the Cambrian explosion.

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 06:31:20 +0100, "Russell Wallace" <russell.wallace at gmail.com> said:
> On 6/3/06, Harry Harrison <xyz at iq.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> I agree completely, which is why I support no such thing. Is there anyone
> outside the lunatic fringe who does?