den Otter wrote:
> Morals are subjective, but the most practical (=rational) course of action
Still beating the dead horse of subjective morals I see.
> would be not to create AIs with SI potential and work on uploading instead.
> Again, our prime directive should _always_ be survival. Survival is the
> prerequisite for _all_ other actions. Any philosophy that does not value
> personal survival [in an optimal state] above everything else is by definition
> irrational. Thus follows that transhumanism (with an immortalist element)
> is the best philosophy currently available to us.
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
Any indivdual is free to contribute their lives to the fight for freedom. It is the selfish altruism of liberty for which any real human will die to give to others.
Mike Lorrey