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

[Samantha Atkins]

Lee Corbin wrote:
> 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.  
>   

You would prefer no intelligence at all in the local universe if that 
intelligence wasn't human or formerly human? 

- samantha