From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 02:36:35 MDT
"J. R. Molloy" wrote:
>
> Samantha Atkins writes,
>
> > If it is postbiological enough then survival of the fittest and "food"
> > and "eating" may be quite irrelevant.
>
> Yes that's right. The only thing actually "postbiological" is the entropic heat
> death of the universe. Biology means the study of life, and that includes
> artificial life.
>
Not my point. We often assume that AI and major transhuman society will
be governed by the same general rules and basic working conditions as we
are governed by now. This is not necessarily the case in any great
detail. Assume it is blindsides us to other possibilities and ways we
might create other types of futures without some of the downsides.
- s.
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