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--></style></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="spike66@att.net" data-contactname="spike" class="clickable"><span title="spike66@att.net">spike</span><span class="detail"> <spike66@att.net></span></span> , 12/12/2014 7:29 PM:<br><blockquote class="mcnt mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="mcnt"><div class="mcntWordSection1"><p class="mcntMsoNormal"><br></p><p class="mcntMsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">On this topic, I have had this crazy high Rosetta reading of 530 ppm on my mind, and a cheerful thought occurred to me. Said to myself: Spike, if you are struggling and worrying about the anomalously high reading of the deuterium to hydrogen ratio on 67P, well you just don’t have enough problems, me lad.</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Indeed! It is beyond a first world problem, this is a zeroth world problem. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I can by the way happily report that we have another transhumanist PhD in the world since today, Dr Karim Jebari. I was on his examination committee and am happy with his thesis, but I expect him to be even happier tonight. </div><div>http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:768647/FULLTEXT02.pdf</div><div><div>http://philpapers.org/s/Karim%20Jebari</div><div><br></div><div>The most interesting paper IMHO in the thesis was about de-extinction of extinct species, where he showed that by the standards of environmental ethics we ought to do this for some species. An earlier talk applies this to Neanderthals</div><div>http://slides.com/karimjebari/should-the-neanderthals-be-extinct#/<br><div>(while most people outside environmental ethics - Karim included - find their normative ideas problematic, the ideas actually do seem to imply we have a moral duty not to go extinct ourselves).<br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</div></div></div></body></html>