<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Stathis writes<br><br>> On 06/05/07, Lee Corbin <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> > Though even here peculiar paradoxes await.<br>> > Let's say you would find immortality sufficient, provided also that it
<br>> > was subjectively great beyond your wildest dreams, and it even included<br>> > a vast community of somewhat like-minded individuals. Would y'all then<br>> > be satisfied by the following?<br>
<br>That was my real question. Of course, you may not want---probably<br>wisely---to answer for "y'all", but I was interested in your answer<br>for yourself.<br><br>My point has to do with objectivity vs. subjectivity. On *just* the
<br>subjective view, what's wrong? You live forever, etc. But *objectively*,<br>your share of the future is rather small, we might say.<br><br> I then went on in order to clarify that concern:<br><br>> > In 2061 an AI ruling Earth has extremely recently discovered certain
<br>> > astounding things, such as how using quantum effects to produce<br>> > infinitely many computations over a finite interval of time. Now, how<br>> > to deal with all the troglotyte humans? ....next quarter second,
<br>> > the third second, so that at the end, objectively, after two seconds<br>> > the Ruling AI has eliminated the resource problem insofar as regards<br>> > y'all. Or do you want more? Do you want *objectively* to be around
<br>> > at all times and places in the future?<br>><br>> Subjective immortality is acceptable.<br><br>Hmm? I didn't know that I was asking anything about morality :-)<br><br>I really do want to know if---under this admittedly very wild hypothesis
<br>---you would find the prospect of such a future alluring or depressing.<br>And whichever answer, why so?<br></blockquote></div><br>I don't even see it as an issue: I would be quite happy with the scenario you propose, and I would be unhappy with objectively living forever while subjectively living for only a limited time.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou