On 12/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Already you're displaying unhealthy pessimism. Are you *totally*<br>sure that there is zero percent chance that cryonics will work?<br>Whence such certainty?</blockquote><div><br>No certainty at all - have you read my post on SL4, "Donaldson, Tegmark and AGI"?
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">*Our* times are desperate? I humbly suggest you read more<br>history, and put yourselves in the invariably precarious position
<br>of our ancestors. Now *those* times were desperate, at least<br>for each individual.</blockquote><div><br>And, fair point; I have done just as you suggest and I try to keep this in mind. I'm a pragmatic pessimist, but hey, the bright side of being a pessimist is your surprises are more likely to be good ones.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">That's the spirit!<br></blockquote></div><br>Good, we're on the same page!<br>