[extropy-chat] Yesterday's Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life

[Keith Henson]

At 05:54 PM 4/30/2007 -0700, John Grigg wrote:

>I am fascinated by the possibilities of "Second Life" but have not yet 
>actually ventured there with an avatar.

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The thing that is most interesting about Second Life is that as *crude* as 
it is, it sucked in something close to 1 in a thousand of the US 
population.  (Agreed many may be from outside the US.)

I have been working on an unpublishable novel where the big problem of a 
hundred years hence is to prevent all the physical state human population 
from vanishing into simulations.

I started it before Second Life.  I never dreamed I would see such an 
example before I finished it.

Keith