[ExI] Isn't Bostrom seriously bordering on the reactionary?

Giulio Prisco giulio at gmail.com
Wed Jun 15 15:48:20 UTC 2011


I think the post-S world will have much more diversity than today's
world. Some people will choose to live in VR worlds with only weak
coupling to physical reality (whatever that is), others will choose to
go to the stars, others will find creative ways to do both things at
the same time.

After reading Bostrom's oh-soooo-reasonable-and-responsible (and
booooring) article, I recommend this great article of Jason Silva:
Why We Could All Use a Heavy Dose of Techno-optimism
http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/06/15/why-we-could-all-use-a-heavy-dose-of-techno-optimism/

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Probably. But we should not give up without a fight and, as persons
>> and as small/large orgs, we should re-affirm our commitment to _real_
>> visionary transhumanism and do our best to promote it. Let's go to the
>> stars or die trying, and screw the precautionary principle.
>
> Although post singularity control over materials would let us go to
> the stars, it might also kill the desire to do so.
>
> And if people sped up by a million fold, it's a *long* way to the stars.
>
> Keith
>
>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think we should get used to the fact that the singularity is
>>> probably going to be Chinese flavored.
>>>
>>> Keith
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