[ExI] Beyond Meat

[William Flynn Wallace]

Y'all do realize that most people believe in God, right?  So uploading is
going to be regarded as extremely unnatural, and getting classified as a
person is going to be really difficult.  When it happens there'd better be
plenty of backup, because the uploads are going to get turned off, if many
people have their say, or take matters into their own hands.   bill w

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:34 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 03/11/2020 05:34, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> > Anyway, the thing i was actually trying to solicit thoughts about is
> > whether transhuman futures will be driven by those trying to leave
> > earth or by those trying to stay.
>
> Maybe both.
>
> Although one scenario often offered as a solution to the problem of
> post-humans and baseline humans failing to coexist peacably on the same
> planet, is a rule that anyone who uploads has to get off the planet
> immediately afterwards.
>
> Of course, in that scenario, the transhumanist future is all in space,
> and doesn't help the people left on earth (probably not true, thinking
> about it. For starters, it would make cheap energy a lot easier, plus
> lots of other things that would, even incidentally, benefit those
> left/trapped on earth).
>
> I see no reason, though, why peaceful coexistence wouldn't be possible,
> and can imagine a future where uploads are developed, help to reverse
> whatever damage has been done to the environment/ecology/human
> civilisation, make life much better for those who choose to remain
> biological, and also drive expansion into space.
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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