From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Jul 15 2000 - 10:29:49 MDT
Sure, you may think you're a hard-core ultra-committed transhumanist
because you're wearing your cryo bracelet, but do you have the Other
Bracelet?
The one that says: "In The Event Of Singularity, Please Upload
Immediately"?
No? Geeze, what a wimp. (Taunting voice.) "Johnny's afraid of the
future, Johnny's afraid of the future..."
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Also, I think the cryonics sign-up sheets should have little checkboxes
on the bottom that say:
Do you want to be reanimated as (check one):
[] A biological human
[] An upload
[] A superintelligence
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Actually, if you want to get technical about it, what the bracelet
should say is: "Please upload and upgrade immediately, if it is clear
and unambiguous (99%+) that I would come to that conclusion if I knew
the facts."
And you don't need a bracelet; we'll just read it out of your neurons.
So... are you "wearing" your Other Bracelet?
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sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://singinst.org/beyond.html
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