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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white 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'><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><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anders Sandberg<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Atlantic article on human reengineering with very strong reactions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 13/03/2012 02:31, Max More wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>></span>This article is about a paper (co-authored by Anders Sandberg) that considers ways of reengineering humans so as to "combat" climate change<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I liked that Slashdot tagged the article 'troll'. This is probably the closest I have ever got to actually trolling people.<br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>And of course, the only long-term sustainable approach is to become a solid state civilization...<br><a href="http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2009/03/a_really_green_and_sustainable_humanity.html">http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2009/03/a_really_green_and_sustainable_humanity.html</a><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>--<span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Anders Sandberg,<o:p></o:p></p><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Anders, I dropped my teeth this morning. The local AM radio was all over this story, telling of this NYU professor who was urging his students to do genetic engineering to make people smaller so that they would be more environmentally friendly. Of course that sold me bigtime: I have long advocated for smaller people. The advantages are many, once you realize that so many things scale down as the square and the cube of our linear dimension. For instance, if humans were to evolve to half scale, think of how we could scale down houses and cars. Our current freeway and road system would be so very adequate! Our current farm system would be so capable of feeding us. If we were half scale, we would need only a quarter of the amount of food per person. Our cars would be the size of shopping carts, our offices spacious beyond our current ambitions. Our manned spacecraft would be increased in volume by a factor of 8, or reduced in mass by the same.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The local radio DJ was horrified, but I thought it was a great idea.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The notion isn’t to modify our DNA directly, but rather modify our sexual desires, so that we are attracted to smaller people. Then the DNA modification happens by mate selection.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>