From: Robin Hanson (hanson@econ.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 20 1998 - 11:32:00 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes:
>Transhumanism is the idea that future technology will probably improve
>dramatically on the human body and the human mind. We or our descendants, in
>five years or five hundred, may transcend so many limitations that we will no
>longer be recognizably human - or even mortal.
I have a lot of sympathy for this, as it's pretty similar to my proposal.
But why just mention the body & mind? Transhumanists seem to talk alot
about improving a lot of other things as well. (And why especially highlight
the mortality issue?)
Robin Hanson
hanson@econ.berkeley.edu http://hanson.berkeley.edu/
RWJF Health Policy Scholar, Sch. of Public Health 510-643-1884
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