[extropy-chat] the self identity quest (2)

[Keith Henson]

At 11:02 AM 11/4/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>David wrote:
>
> > I think you, and most transhumanist,
>
>By the way, I consider myself more a humanist than a transhumanist, but
>the difference is subtle.

Perhaps it is today, but I can remember back in the mid 1980s when Alcor 
had a presence at a Humanist convention in San Jose.  We were tossed out at 
the request of the main speaker.

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Re the rest of this post, I discussed "info-resurrection" with (or in the 
context of) Hans Moravec and cryonics.  The quality control problem is so 
bad that I expressed extreme doubt anyone would attempt such a thing.

I looked for it, but no luck.  Perhaps it was on the old Extropy mailing 
list.  As I recall, I talked about using all the available information to 
simulate Hans Moravec and the world around him to the point he wrote _Mind 
Children_--discarding the versions that did not generate the manuscript 
word for word.  I proposed that you would have to discard a lot of 
versions, and expressed hope that the discard process would not be painful.

The conclusion was that cryonics was much less trouble.

Keith Henson