Re: Hawking on cloning
Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:50:28 -0500
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> > Stephen Hawking just stated in an interview with an AP reporter:
> >
> > "The fuss about cloning is rather silly," he said. "I can't see any
> > essential distinction between cloning and producing brothers and sisters
> > in the time-honored way."
>
> He has also supported bionics (quite naturally) and I would consider him
> at least a supporter of the transhuman cause.
>
> It's too bad I don't believe genius is genetic, otherwise it might be
> interesting to clone him... (raises some fun ethical problems too).
>
> > He also identified his favorite website:
> >
> > http://xxx.laniel.gov
> >
> > which is a physics and mathematics papers archive. Note the "xxx" rather
> > than "www" in the address.
>
> You mean xxx.lanl.gov. Yes, this is a great site for us Hawking-wannabees :-)
>
>
Funy, it was spelled the way I put it in the article. Must be a
conspiracy to keep people from finding it.......;)