From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 20:58:14 MDT
Eliezer wrote
> Felix Ungman wrote:
> >
> > It was good enough for my father, it has been good enough for
> > me... :-) Seriously, if you set your standards so high that
> > nothing but an utopia is good enough for your child, you'll never
> >have any.
> There are certainly altruistic benefits to being born pre-Singularity -
> the chance to play a part in the birth of human space - but that requires
> that your kid grow up fast enough to break even. Even with the future
> Internet dumping power into the hands of thirteen-year-olds, your child
> would have to move tearingly fast to have a real effect on the
> Singularity.
Well, I've got a great compromise that should satisfy everyone!
What would be best for the kid would be to be born now, and then
also born later after the singularity, and perhaps to be born as
many times as possible in-between times! (Yes, some people think
I'm joking, but in the light of what computation really is, and
our lives really are, I'm only being logical.)
Lee
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