From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Wed May 09 2001 - 18:13:54 MDT
> Your scenario about being unable to afford eternal life
> provided by the Singularity---because somehow your cryonics
> expenditures impoverished you---just does not hold up.
>
> In the first place, you don't seem to understand the scope
> of the transformation that comes with a Singularity. To
> imagine yourself pitifully ensconsed in your wheelchair at
> age 90, able to somehow make it into your dewer to get frozen,
> yet unable to benefit from the Singularity, is silly. If you
> live through the minutes preceding the Singularity, whatever
> issues that you find that you still have to worry about, well,
> concerns about money and cryonics won't be among them.
Sure. But being unable to afford the eternal life afforded by
pre-(Singularity-in-the-strong-sense) technology is a very real
possibility...
ben
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