[ExI] what if

[Tomasz Rola]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Stefano Vaj wrote:

> On 16 December 2012 00:43, Tomasz Rola <rtomek at ceti.pl> wrote:
> 
> > Since we are at it, I wouldn't mind if humanity reached this blessed
> > immortal happy existential plateau, me included.
> 
> 
> No, I still would.

Ah, that's ok. But I still wouldn't.

> But this is a moot issue, because ultimately stagnation is a short-term
> illusion, the actual alternative *at any level* to progress and growth
> being decadence, sclerosis and regression.
> 
> This is true in Darwinian and human terms, and I do not expect, nor hope,
> it to change in any posthuman future.

If I had this much time as the transition implies, I would do my best to 
not stagnate. And I would not stay here, because gossiping is not really 
interesting and to gossip for longer than 1 second objective time (which 
should be enough to catalogue all possible variations of this with 
cyberminds cheet-chating to each other) is indeed a sign of retardation. 
Ditto for strippokering and banging virtual hostesses.

Of course, looking at biological humans and their ways, I would not be 
surprised if retardation followed them into cyberspace. But joining this 
happy monkey train is not on my priority list. I only might help with 
building the railways.

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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