Funny. Eliezer, in his quest to become BRAIN, seems to be seeking a
return to the womb, IMHO. Entropic if you ask me......
If each of use has different specific interest, it is because we are
different individuals. We all know that all of the things on your list
are important, but if we each only do a little of each, we will each get
nowhere fast. Great advances are not made by people who do a little of
this and a little of that, but by those whos focus on one thing becomes
so great that they break through the barriers that held back previous
devlopment.
If we all focus on one same thing, who decides what that one thing is?
You? Me? Sorry, I don't work that way. We each have our own special
interests and can report to the others on the progress we each are
making in our own fields that are of importance to all. If you are so
fired up on your thing, get off your butt and get to it man! Don't
insist that everyone else follow, as those that want to will if you
start the journey, and those that don't wont.
Also, from my own perspective, I recommend you not mock the efforts of
those who are seeking to expand our resource base to space. The economic
and resource costs of making everyone megabrains will be so high that we
will accelerate a Malthusian crisis before the goal is attained, if we
do not seek expanded resources off planet. If we start cloning ourselves
and making duplicate uploaded minds indiscriminately we will exacerbate
the process...
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