[extropy-chat] How to be copied into the future?

[Robert Bradbury]

On 4/21/07, TheMan <mabranu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >chances of being saved by future posthumans is
> > >increased more, or even equally much, by a Ray
> > >Kurzweil way of living, than/as for example by a
> > >Mother Theresa way of being ? given that the
> > >posthumans value altruism more than anything else.
> >
> > Only if posthumans are godschmucked idiots will
> > they wish to retrieve Mother Teresa.


[God knows how many snips...]

Future "salvation vectors" are much more likely to be based upon "wisdom
vectors" rather than "mercy vectors".  Wise actions will save many more
people than merciful behaviors, particularly those directed towards an
improbable and unprovable direction.).

Ray does not understand this completely but he is light years ahead of
people such as M. Theresa.

The bottom line is that ~6 million people a year are dying (99.9+% on an
unrecoverable path).  So when one presents an argument in this forum it
should be in the context of *this* will save *X* million people a year.
Anything less than that and you tend to lose my interest.

Someone has to set the bar.
Robert


Robert
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