<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 1:03 PM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></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">The usual meaning of empire</blockquote><div><br></div><div>...dates from an era long before many of the things shown for Chad in the picture were seriously dreamed of, at least for human beings to do.</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">And in the case of creating conscious beings who are loyal by design<br>
seems hideous, no?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not really, no. Less effective at many things than current approaches, though. "Sad" is more accurate than "hideous".</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> Is that the future you envision?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Only insofar as there are certainly people who are probably going to try it someday. They can go off and essentially enter into solipsism - and be diminished by their "army of me" approach. They might at least be happy, though.</div></div></div>