From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Nov 28 1996 - 18:37:13 MST
> If they don't utilize the current cryonics, it's not my problem, it's their
> fault. Besides most of those people don't want to live longer than their
> normal lifespans anyways due to religious beliefs.
Nobody knows about cryonics, and I frankly don't trust it to preserve my
soul, being a Penrosian noncomputationalist. I sincerely doubt that the
average human would turn down immortality.
My ethical system says that as a student of the Singularity, I have to
accept responsibility for piloting humanity safely home, and that's all
of humanity. If you want to be irresponsible, that's your decision.
Mine is that every unnecessary death is my personal fault for not
thinking fast enough.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/singularity.html
http://tezcat.com/~eliezer/algernon.html
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