[ExI] Fwd: [Cosmic Engineers] Re: Sharing/engineering proposal

[Giulio Prisco]

I think forwarding messages to other lists without the consent of the
originator is not kosher.

Alan, perhaps you should take your obsessions elsewhere.

I should warn other readers that AG is banned from most transhumanist
lists for rude and abusive behavior. Which, I must concede, is not the
case here so far, but just to set the precedents.

2010/10/14 Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net>:
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> Subject: [Cosmic Engineers] Re: Sharing/engineering proposal
> From: Extropia DaSilva <extropia at hotmail.co.uk>
> To: Cosmic Engineers <cosmic-engineers at googlegroups.com>
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> 'You see Giulio, Extropia DOES intend to forcefully upload people and
> is on record as saying so'.
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> I suggested that 'we' (and by 'we' I meant our posthuman desendents,
> if any) might opt to convert the planet into computronium and run
> everybody as uploads in a simulation indisinguishable from reality, as
> perceived by the human senses. Anybody who did not want to be uploaded
> would be uploaded anyway, and we would edit out the memory of that
> event. So, such people continue living in a reality indistinguishable
> from the one they were in before. They are happy, and the posthuman
> civilization has aquired a nice large chunk of computronium, so they
> are happy as well.
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> Now, maybe it is not physically possible to actually carry out this
> proposal. And, if it is achievable in principle, there may well be
> good ethical/ moral reasons why the project should never go ahead.
> Anybody is free to debunk the feasibility of this scheme, or to show
> exactly why transfering somebody from one simulated approximation of
> reality to a functionally identical simulated approximation of reality
> (albeit one running on quite different hardware) is so morally
> outrageous that any sentient being would never choose to impliment
> such a scheme.
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> I am afraid I do not believe that any idea or suggestion is so
> dangerous that it should not be uttered. That does not mean all ideas
> should be put into practice, of course. Clearly not. But, surely, we
> should have the right to propose any idea, provided we reserve others
> the right to expose flaws in that argument, in whatever shape or form
> such flaws may come in?
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