From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 16 1999 - 18:14:45 MST
J. R. Molloy wrote:
> Furthermore, cryonics seems entropic in that it denies
> that life may create even more talented and gifted people. Scientists
> capable of reviving dead genius could create even greater genius, and
> consequently would have no reason to perform resurrections.
> After all, it makes no sense to rebuild a 1950 machine, when you can create
> a better and more powerful new one to replace and surpass the old one in
> 2050. Cryonics can only hope to revive talented and gifted people, but
> transhuman extropy seeks to surpass, exceed, augment, and transcend what has
> gone before, no matter how talented and gifted.
Dear J.R. Molloy: I'm more talented and gifted than you are. Please
shoot yourself.
A sufficiently altruistic Extropian might decide that investing $100K in
Cycorp and/or Zyvex takes precedence over cryonic preservation.
Consoling ourselves by saying cryonics isn't important is silly. It's
not all-important. It might be unnecessary or undesirable. There still
exists a significant probability that it is important, necessary and desirable.
Information must never be destroyed. It's a simple precaution.
--
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