[ExI] far future

[Kelly Anderson]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:57 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Far future - year 50,000 a.d.
>

Whatever you guess about 50,000 AD is probably going to be wrong.


> There is no economy - everything is free.
>

Just because everything is "free" in some sense doesn't mean there isn't an
economy. What we do with the hours in our day is an economy. I am investing
in this thread, I am doing economic activity. But what you are getting from
me is "free" to you. Is this not economics?


>   Robots do everything except think.
>

Why would robots be limited from thinking? That is something that they are
very likely to do better than us within a 100 years. Can't imagine a future
50,000 years from now in which the best thinking is done by human beings.


> No politics - democratic socialism - takes 95% approval for any genetic
> changes.
>

Any society where 95% of a vote is required to do ANY ONE THING would be a
very authoritarian society, would it not?


> Humans do not participate in making babies - all done by computer and
> genemaking equipment.  Gene design borrowed from all sort of animals and
> plants.  Immune system, muscle design, etc.  Vision better and I don't know
> what to make of enhancing smell.  Do we really want to smell like a dog?
> (so to speak)  We would likely have to redesign our disgust responses.
>

Yes, these are interesting questions. But do  you have to go so far into
the future to imagine them? Star Trek projected 400 years into the future,
and what did they project? Cell phones. Gee, I'm sure glad we didn't really
have to wait 400 years for that.


> All humans have basically the same genetic makeup except for external
> features - why deprive newborns of any good genes? (thus making children
> far more genetically similar to existing adults than today's parent and
> child)  Improving humans by implants etc. has been left way behind.  Not
> considered natural.
>

Having everyone with the same genetic makeup would be terribly hazardous
because then one disease could come by and wipe out everyone. These people
don't sound too smart.


> So, everyone is a genius of all sorts.  All medical and psychological
> problems related to genes have been eliminated.  Personalities are sunny in
> disposition, eager to work, devoid of any competitive impulses, unable to
> even think of hurting another person, and so on.
>

Sounds ideal and evil at the same time. Nice.


>
> bill
>

It's all about telling a story. I suggest spending some time over at the
Water Cooler...

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/


-Kelly
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