[extropy-chat] Singularity Blues

[Samantha Atkins]

The payoff?  I am not posthuman but I imagine it might include simply 
the sense of repayment and satisfaction of helping one's root/parent 
species continue and evolve to the maximal extent it or its members 
can.

- samantha
On Apr 6, 2005, at 3:41 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:42:19AM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>>> The Singularity is incompatible with sustained presence of human
>>> primates,
>>> though.
>>>
>> In what way?
>
> In the physical way. Biological life will need active protection by 
> the most powerful
> participants for it to be effective, while the power distribution will 
> be spread
> dramatically. It's thus a one-way interaction -- no payoff for one 
> party.
>
> What would be the motivation for that? People are irrational that way, 
> but
> it's not working, but for a few lucky ones.
>
> -- 
> Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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