[extropy-chat] Top scientist asks: is life all just a dream?

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 20 22:04:00 UTC 2004


--- Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally i hope we can get around such polarized positioning sooner
> still.
> 
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:30:45 -0500 (EST), Rik van Riel
> <riel at surriel.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Hara Ra wrote:
> > 
> > > I predict that in about 10 more years the Church of the
> > > Immaculate Upload will come along.
> > 
> > Ten years ?!
> > 
> > I'd have hoped we could move the religious fanatics
> > to a place where they can't harm us much sooner... ;)

Oh my, are we making positive commentary about the forced uploading
(i.e. genocide) of that majority of humanity that are devoutly
religious? How very..... Bradburian of you....

Of course, you are also essentially proposing that we put a couple
billion intelligent religious viruses onto the world computer system.
Great going guys, you just brought it all down...

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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