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

Lee Corbin lcorbin at rawbw.com
Mon Apr 23 00:02:59 UTC 2007


Jef writes


> On 4/22/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
> 
>> ...stands to reason that future beings cannot possibly
>> be so harsh as to keep Mother Teresa dead forever
>> ---if they still have even a vestige of humanity left
>> about them.
> 
> Lee, I completely agree that such a powerful being would do all these
> nice things, to the precise extent that such actions were valuable on
> its terms.

That's a truism.  But I take you to mean that you'd be willing to
defer to its terms.  No?  As for me, if it is cheap in terms of time
and resources, and the advanced entities could save us---but
choose not to (for whatever reasons)---then I'd just as soon
they not exist either.  The bastards.  

Lee




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