[extropy-chat] Wait a minute. What's our contingency plan?

[alexboko]

Adrian Tymes wrote:

> Short answer: we don't.  If that happens, we've lost.

I'm a transhumanist. I don't accept defeat preemptively. For any problem 
and level of information about that problem, there is at least one 
solution with the greatest chance of a favorable outcome. I want us to 
start looking for that solution, and when we find it, I want us to start 
implementing it.

> Long answer: learn and practice the technologies
> yourself.  A new dark age can only arise if people
> stop using modern technology.  


No, that's not the only way a new dark age can arise. Here are a few more:

       A. Climate change
       B. Depletion of feasibly extractable resources (including energy)
       C. War
       D. Tyranny
       E. Long-term economic depression
       F. Nuclear/biological/chemical attack
       G. Plague

It doesn't even have to be a full-on medieval time. Rolling back to the 
1800's would be enough to guarantee permanent death for most or all of 
those alive today plus those already in cryosuspension. There has to be 
a failsafe.