[extropy-chat] i don't laugh at peasants anymore

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 24 21:42:11 UTC 2005


--- Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Morality, misinformation/disinformation are a concern, but extropian
> economics is a worry. You can't have an extropian future without
> extropian economies however very few are interested. They like the
> benefits of the present and future but want the pace of the past;
> they want a very clean environment but they want to live the Good
> Life; they want change but they want familial continuity; they want a
> national economy but they want Jose´ to build their home.

Not sure where you got this, but this isn't extropian economics. Jose
can build his own home with the help of nanites and the dirt and rock
of his own property. He won't need to slave away for me to have a good
life, and I won't need his cheap labor to live my own good life.
Nanocracking of water from solar power and/or nanofusion and/or
background fission or cracking fossil fuels while sequestering CO2 will
give me all the clean fuel and energy I need with no need of decimating
wilderness to grow biofuel.

> I've heard the same political and commercial advertising for 40
> years, "2.9% growth this year, 1.7% next year. The gubernatorial
> candidate's press agent said today that taxes here must be lowered
> but taxes there must be raised..."; "Buy two bottles of
> pantheonutramine and you get the third bottle at no extra charge-- it
> will make you feel as if you just popped out of the womb". Will the
> same sort of commercials be on 40 years from now? 80? 

There will still be commercials 40-80 years from now, only more
creative, artistic, and focused on their target demographic
psychologies than ever. Even more, there will be smart commercials,
computer generated to target you specifically based on what the
advertiser knows about you, with special deals for you alone. All media
will be personalized. Movies/shows will have personal POVs based on who
is watching, and 4-8 people will be able to watch their own custom
content on the same wallscreen tv, with the tv tracking your position
in the room and adjusting its refraction indices, horizontally and
vertically, to accomplish this. Movies/shows will also be hotclickable,
with every item in a scene on sale with detailed specs and/or wikipedia
entries. You buy the product, it downloads to your home nanoassembler,
and it pops out when you ask for it.

> What is the
> meaning of cryonics? Will an ET get hold of remains in 2805 to
> display them in a museum?: "this specimen was frozen in the Earth
> Year 2005, precisely eight hundred EYs ago". And learning from
> mistakes isn't of course merely learning from one's own mistakes but
> also others'-- you wouldn't want to be like FM, thinking you are
> ageless when you're a coot, would you? It appears very embarrassing,
> it make's one think there is in fact something to growing old
> gracefully. 

Is appearance your definition of old age? How shallow of you. My 95
year old grandma could teach you a thing about being ageless. She still
golfs 18 holes three times a week and goes dancing every weekend, and
she still gets marriage proposals from coots looking for a cheap
nursemaid. Agelessness is your attitude, not your wrinkle count.

> Forty years ago I used to laugh at those ignorant
> peasants pictured in
>  National Geographic living in the Hunza mountains, eating yogurt and
> bulgur wheat, drinking moonshine but living to be centenarians. If
> they came here would they laugh at us for buying expensive
> supplements and spending thousands to be frozen?

Those centenarians got that way by faking their birth certificates to
avoid the WWII draft, making their ages over the limit. 

Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
Founder, Constitution Park Foundation:
http://constitutionpark.blogspot.com
Personal/political blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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