From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue May 28 2002 - 18:57:32 MDT
Dossy wrote:
>
> On 2002.05.28, natashavita@earthlink.net <natashavita@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > It seems that most extropians prefer quality to quantity.
>
> My comment is mostly tongue-in-cheek, but if your statement were
> true, then why the need to live forever?
Because a huge amount of high-quality life is preferable to a small amount
of high-quality life, and an infinite amount of high-quality life is
preferable to a huge amount of high-quality life. For that matter, current
life ain't all that high quality by the standards of a few decades hence.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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