From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Apr 18 1999 - 20:53:55 MDT
"O'Regan, Emlyn" wrote:
>
> I have found that this has occupied my thoughts more and more, and so my
> conversation. In fact, I'm probably becoming an immortality bore. The
> problem I have is, that when I'm blabbing away about living in the last
> generation of mortals or the first generation of immortals, depending on
> luck basically (and a lot of people's hard work, sorry to all you out
> there), I suddenly get quite embarrased if I'm talking to or am nearby
> an elderly person.
1) It is now too late to save my great-grandparents, even though most
of them were alive when I was born. But all four of my grandparents are
still alive, and I think I have a fairly good chance of pulling off a
Singularity in time to save them.
2) Two words: Time travel.
3) One word: Cryonics.
"We will drag this planet, kicking and screaming, into the stark and
unknowable future... We will do it before our parents die of old age."
- The Extropian Banner
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