[ExI] LA Times piece on Extropians, transhumanism, longtermism and the writer's mental illness

[BillK]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 17:24, Max More via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Someone sent me today’s LA Times op-Ed piece referencing Extropianism. There’s a lot wrong with it. Below are some brief comments I sent in reply:
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> Guerrero: I once fell for the fantasy of uploading ourselves. It's a dangerous myth - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)
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> Does the L.A. Times print letters to the editor? If so, maybe I'll write a response.
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> --Max
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Yes, the LA Times does print Letters.
See: <https://www.latimes.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor>

In her article she mentions that in the early 2000s she tried to type
her life into a computer in the hope that her life would be
resurrected later.
She was 20 years too early. You can do that now. AI chatbots can
imitate dead humans when trained on their history and speak in their
voice after sampling some speech records, Even holograms can be
created.
Voice and video fakes are now good enough to be becoming a security problem.


BillK