From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 30 1999 - 12:22:07 MDT
Robert B. wrote:
>Nanotech stands a good chance of leaving bankrupt most older
>forms of wealth storage. If you aren't alive to manage it,
>I would doubt you are going to wake up wealthy.
I'm skeptical about this. A broad-based index mutual fund
should work fine, as long as the index is remixed frequently
to include new upstart forms of wealth. Even a stock fund
would probably do fine, as new corporations should be big
players in whatever the nanotech economy turns out to value
most.
>... It may be distinctly possible that uploading a
>deanimated frozenaut may be feasible *before* bio-nanotech
>reanimation (or downloading into a new body a previous uploaded
>frozenaut).
>
>Do people in thinking about cryonics select between the various
>options I can see: ...
> (b) Reanimate using the first upload technology. ...
That is my choice. I expect the first unfrozen will be uploads,
and the first uploads will be the unfrozen. As I've argued
before, descendants of the first uploads stand a good chance of
grabbing a big chunk of all future wealth, just from selling
their labor.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
Asst. Prof. Economics, George Mason University
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