[ExI] Top Soil Depletion

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
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>>... There might be a significant fraction of humanity that intentionally and actively resists uploading, just as a significant fraction of humanity today eschews modern technology.

>...No doubt.  But even the Amish use cell phones.  Some kinds of technology have become ubiquitous...Keith

Keith I have a group of (not very close) relatives who we think descended from four Hutterite families who went into Western Virginia (now West Virginia) in about the 1680s.  They live along a no-outlet road in the mountains (ja, it's a holler) they have no cell phone coverage up there, no radio or TV signals, or if so not strong enough to bother trying to receive.  

I wrote a paper letter yesterday.  Oh I don't like doing that, but I have no way to communicate with them otherwise.  I don't very often.

Fun aside: a bunch of them did AncestryDNA, which is how we found out about their existence up there.

If we get uploading, there will be pockets of humanity which scarcely heard of it and want nothing to do with it.

spike