<div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Of course, the ultimate flexibility would be achievable by uploading.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></font><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Dave</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">What about what a person is without augmentations? If you get uploaded you are just a long string of code, right? So you can be anything you want to be - just change the code. Now </span>everyone is the<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif"> same - the best code can do. What is the point of that? You are just a computer that is no better and no worse than any other computer. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">There is nothing distinctive about you that cannot be duplicated by some one else. </span> bill w</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 1:16 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:16 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">We are talking at cross purposes. I am talking about genetic manipulation of ova and sperm.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps, but you didn't say that. :-)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">I do think I would make everyone better in the same way: far better immune systems, for instance.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nanobots.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="auto"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"> And the changes will be in the fertilized egg, not a borned person. But I suppose that genetic changes to adults could happen through epigenetics.</font></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Genetic and epigenetic changes aren't the only way to change. Augmentation could be huge. Eyeglasses and contact lenses are already common and clothing is pretty much mandatory. Google Glass was a hint of what could be done a simple wearable: full-time video stream to the cloud, augmented reality in the form of overlaid navigation directions, facial recognition/identification, translation, etc. Add voice input or subvocal input and you could set alarms, create reminders, place orders, do searches, etc. These could easily increase IQ. Some added AI could facilitate behavior/personality modification. Now think 50 years down the road... What could wearables and implants do? If nano ever progresses sufficiently, implementing biological changes in borned people might be doable. Of course, the ultimate flexibility would be achievable by uploading.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>
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