From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 12:50:16 MST
michael.bast@convergys.com wrote:
>
> If any of us are going to make it to
> trans/post humanity, some of us are going to have to be left behind. Cruel
> sounding, but that's life.
If I can rewrite the entire planet on the molecular level, I can deal
with human stupidity as well. Nobody *has* to be left behind. The only
real question is whether ethics requires that everyone be given the
*option* of staying behind.
--
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