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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>…</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Grigg<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Is Transhumanism Coercive?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anders Sandberg wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>></span>Now off to London to talk ethics of brain interfaces and do a BBC interview on enhancers... ah, the life of the jetset (or rather, train-set) bioethicist! ;-)<br>>>><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Beautiful and intelligent women surrounding you constantly, all you can eat gourmet conference buffets, thrilling intellectual debates with your arch-nemesis, travel in comfortable and speedy trains, walks along historical university campuses, why, you could be a character out of Venture Brothers! All you are missing is a massive bodyguard, your own personal jet, and an out of date research compound.<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>John : ) <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>John, Anders is reality version of Dr. Benton Quest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I mean the 1960s version, not the lame 1996 version with its supernatural nonsense. In the 1960s, Dr. Quest, Race Bannon and the boys used to do all kinds of cool politically incorrect stuff like have gunfights with the bad guys using real guns, and if that didn’t work they could always land speedboats on them. Of course you and Anders are too young to be Jonny Quest hipsters, but there are worse things than being too young. {8^D<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>