[ExI] Life @ Playstation

[Brent Allsop]

Hi Spike,

Working on projects for nursing home geezers!?  Tell me more about this 
project, sounds very fascinating!
I'm also thinking along these lines with Canonizer.com.  When you think 
about moral wisdom, and how best to live one's life, who knows better 
than old geezers?  If we could get all of these retired folks to spend 
time 'canonizing' things like the best moral behavior, and so on, 
amplifying everyone's moral wisdom, the old retired people could help us 
have a concise and quantitative moral reference far better than what we 
now have with Wikipedia, (to say nothing of the primitive biblical 
morality - so many of us are stuck in the mud with now) I think.  It's 
such a waste that we aren't better at learning from all these wise and 
experienced people, in assisted living homes and so on, and us 
completely ignoring and loosing all they've learned when they die.

Imagine being able to select your own experts (via selecting your 
preferred canonizing algorithm), and knowing, concisely and 
quantitatively, what kind of moral information these very experienced 
chosen people all understand.  Dang, I so wish I had some way to learn 
and benefit, concisely and quantitatively, from all their experiences.

Brent Allsop





On 11/4/2012 9:36 AM, spike wrote:
>
> *On Behalf Of *Brent Allsop
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Life @ Playstation
>
>
> >...Hi Stefano,
>
> >...Where are you getting all this from?  Especially specifics like "since 
> 1870"?
>
> >...All I have is anecdotal evidences, but here's a few things I see that 
> seem to say otherwise?
>
>   * ...
>   * Mormon Transhumanism is certainly growing! ...
>
> (!)
>
>   * The average life span continues to go through the roof...
>   * I, as a type 1 juvenile diabetic,  last year...So I just in time
>     dodged that bullet...
>   * My son was diagnosed ... didn't exist till last year...
>   * Everyone thinks the costs of medical care are going up ...
>
> Excellent points Brent.  Well said.
>
>   * We're continuing the working on the "Consciousness Survey Project"
>     at Canonizer.com - now with people like Dennett, Chalmers,
>     Hameroff, Lehar, and so many other contributing world class
>     leaders. ...
>
> I admire you for staying on this over the years, even if at times you 
> must have felt like the lone voice crying out in the wilderness.  It 
> encourages me to keep on with my favorite idea for which I have a hard 
> time generating funding or mass enthusiasm, the notion of rigging up 
> virtual realities for old geezers.  By this I mean of course older 
> than I am geezers, the kind that live in nursing homes and such.
>
> Brent Allsop
>
> Brent you are gift pal.  Best wishes with those medical sitches for 
> you and your son man.
>

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