Re: Profiting on tragedy? (was Humour)

From: The Low Willow (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 27 1996 - 15:46:52 MST


On Dec 27, 5:21pm, Michael Lorrey wrote:

} however, suppose the lone genius who develops uploading technology is
} some riduculed, misunderstood individual who has been persecuted since

} you must admit, the most likely to upload first would also be those
} individuals farthest up the bell curve already, and thus run the risk of
} also harboring persecution complexes etc.... Another of the Luddites

Uploading, like most technologies, is likely to be developed by at least
one team of researchers, if not several near each other in time. And
even a psychotic superfast upload is little danger without tools to
match.

Merry part,
 -xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix

I once was a giant but now I'm a craven,
My dirge is of white sheep and the black raven.



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