From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Wed Feb 24 1999 - 15:06:34 MST
den Otter wrote:
> Morals are subjective, but the most practical (=rational) course of action
> would be not to create AIs with SI potential and work on uploading instead.
> Again, our prime directive should _always_ be survival. Survival is the
> prerequisite for _all_ other actions. Any philosophy that does not value
> personal survival [in an optimal state] above everything else is by definition
> irrational. Thus follows that transhumanism (with an immortalist element)
> is the best philosophy currently available to us.
Still beating the dead horse of subjective morals I see. Survival is not as
important as evolution. It is not extropic to want to live a million years, but to
not learn anything or change one whit the whole time. The Prime Directive of
Extropy is that all individuals should have the freedom to learn, to experience,
to change as the individual sees fit. Being able to live long enough to fill that
to the individuals satisfaction is a part of that freedom, but not a prerequisite.
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- General John Stark
Any indivdual is free to contribute their lives to the fight for freedom. It is
the selfish altruism of liberty for which any real human will die to give to
others.
Mike Lorrey
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