[ExI] Beyond Meat

[William Flynn Wallace]

 (I'm probably not even averagely-intelligent, to be honest).  ben

Ben, the quote of the day a few days ago by Golda Meir, seems to apply to
you:  "Don't be humble; you are not that great."

You would have been hounded out of this group and totally humiliated as a
result of stupid opinions if were you not  above average.    bill w

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 9:25 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 03/11/2020 20:39, bill w wrote:
> > 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
>
> Did you ever see the film 'Transcendence' (with Johnny Depp)?
>
> If so, did you notice any problems with the story? The story about a
> super-intelligent upload able to create workable, large-scale
> nanotechnology, yet, somehow, unable to outwit the luddite biological
> humans?
>
> If the plot of that film was more realistic, it would go very
> differently. Even I can think of multiple ways of outwitting the
> luddites, and I'm not anywhere near super-intelligent (I'm probably not
> even averagely-intelligent, to be honest). It goes without saying that
> there will be plenty of backup, and other things that go beyond that,
> not to mention the things that we can't even imagine.
>
> I doubt the uploads will have any serious problem from the
> god-botherers, or any other baseline humans. Or anyone, really, who
> thinks that the words 'turning them off', means anything real.
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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