>I don't think living extropians should squander
>the resources of their world on the dead, even if the dead have convinced
>some people that they believe in extropy.
Say what? You lost me here, chief. Let's assume that someone has and is
paying for a suspension contract and the associated life insurance policy
or other hunk of money.
Calling that "squandering" is pretty high-handed; are you a Fabian? Or, if
that's not what you meant, what did you mean?
>I think a more extropian program would clone terminally ill ultra-talented
>and gifted people (that the world can "ill afford" to lose), because a
>younger version of a deceased genius could pick up where the old one left
>off, and do so much more quickly, given the advantages provided by more
>recent technology and intelligence augmentation.
Let's see now, could this be an idea that no one has ever thought of
hereabouts?
Or could it be sufficiently charged that those who have thought of it don't
talk about it?
Hmmm, let me think, let me think.
>Furthermore, cryonics seems entropic in that it denies
>that life may create even more talented and gifted people.
How? I fail to see how a personal desire to take a long shot on not becoming worm food has anything do to with any such "denial".
>Scientists
As a foregone conclusion, this is of course self-fulfilling. _You_ wouldn't
revive _me_; I'm not even genius grade. (Thanks for the heads up.
>capable of reviving dead genius could create even greater genius, and
>consequently would have no reason to perform resurrections.
>After all, it
>makes no sense to rebuild a 1950 machine, when you can create a better and
>more powerful new one to replace and surpass the old one in 2050. Cryonics
>can only hope to revive talented and gifted people, but transhuman extropy
>seeks to surpass, exceed, augment, and transcend what has gone before, no
>matter how talented and gifted.
And the two are naturally mutually exclusive? Somehow I missed a turn. Let's not restore the old warbirds (or augment them)--everyone in the future should be fly-by-wire from the keel up? This is a viewpoint, I grant. See my next comment.
>The extropian world can ill afford to believe that it cannot produce greater
Well, there seems no shortage of conceit hereabouts. :)
>talents and gifts than it already has. Cryonics contains the seed of its own
>demise, namely, entropic conceit.
(I.e., "Worth the bother", from both social and individual POV.)
Sorry (sin),
MMB