From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 11:41:29 MST
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Richard Steven Hack wrote:
> Once again, we're assuming the speed of light is an absolute limit.
> That may be true given current scientific knowledge, but that is not the
> same as being an absolute.
The Moon is not made from green cheese (nor parmesan, nor pecorino, nor
cheddar, nor tilsiter, nor brie, nor ...). That's also not an absolute.
We know our physics is incomplete. However, superluminal signalling is Big
News. Because it would be equivalent to time travel and violation of
causality? Could happen. But, without evidence I'm not wasting any
thoughts on it so far.
> A Transhuman has no need to replicate. Now, it is possible that it may
All transhumans, everywhere, all of the time? How do you enforce it? Why
did they stop, so suddenly? What about radiation, which is postbiological
but not transhuman? In fact, rather dumb?
> turn out that replication is a good move for some other reason, but
> replication is not identity (barring some tech that enables it to be
> identity), therefore replication offers no survival advantage to an
> entity bounded by space-time.
Very well, I prove you wrong by replicating. So, there. Phtphtphtpht. You
are irrelevant, my runaway successor systems will 0wnZ the universe.
> As I say above, replication is not the issue. It is not clear that
> Transhumans need be competitive - that is *human* thinking (and
> low-grade human thinking at that).
Please show me mechanism how a radiating postbiology will sustainably
strip Darwin. Handwaving and argumentation by value invocation (me mean
gene here) is not acceptable.
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