From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sun Mar 23 1997 - 12:23:54 MST
On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Michael Lorrey wrote:
> Stephen Hawking just stated in an interview with an AP reporter:
>
> "The fuss about cloning is rather silly," he said. "I can't see any
> essential distinction between cloning and producing brothers and sisters
> in the time-honored way."
He has also supported bionics (quite naturally) and I would consider him
at least a supporter of the transhuman cause.
It's too bad I don't believe genius is genetic, otherwise it might be
interesting to clone him... (raises some fun ethical problems too).
> He also identified his favorite website:
>
> http://xxx.laniel.gov
>
> which is a physics and mathematics papers archive. Note the "xxx" rather
> than "www" in the address.
You mean xxx.lanl.gov. Yes, this is a great site for us Hawking-wannabees :-)
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