[ExI] Atheists catch a break

[spike at rainier66.com]

> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat

Subject: Re: [ExI] Atheists catch a break

 

On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:31 AM BillK via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:


Send them to a re-education prison?

 

Flip that around: say you got cryo'd and revived 200 years later.  You can be highly confident that society will have changed, in ways you will not have predicted.  What do you do, to adjust yourself to fit into that society?  Would you ask for reeducation, if it is offered? 

 

 

OF COURSE!  You bet I would.  I would tell them: HEY COOL!  I was an engineer 200 years ago.  Please teach me all the cool stuff you guys figured out, starting with what kind of computer am I thinking in, and what did you guys do with the energy problem, and how did you solve the Malthusian population dynamics problem, and how many Mersenne Primes have been discovered, and all that cool stuff.  Don’t worry about feeding me your modern ethics: I don’t care about that.  What harm can I possibly do you inside this CPU?  Just tell me the kind of stuff we would have told Isaac Newton had he come back in our times.

 

spike

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