[extropy-chat] A brief transhuman life, anyone?

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Wed Feb 9 22:41:43 UTC 2005


At 01:08 PM 2/9/2005 -0800, Eliezer was baffled:

>>>>>I think that in the end I would choose the ten years of transhuman
>>>>>life, for that I cannot imagine I would choose forty years at average
>>>>>  intelligence over twenty years continued as myself.
>>[Paraphrase: Eliezer currently stands halfway between average human and 
>>transhuman and would prefer it that way even at a cost of abbreviated 
>>life span]
>
>I don't know how you get the "halfway" figure.


40 at average cf. 20@"myself": 2/1
20@"myself" cf. 10 at transhuman: 2/1 





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