From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 12 1997 - 10:47:43 MDT
Hal Finney writes:
>So if the future world is one in which competition is a significant
>factor, there will be pressure to run your brain as fast as you can.
>This is too bad, because actually in most ways the quality of life
>will be worse for the super-fast brain.
An analogy is the transition from nomadic herding to farming. Farming
was a worse life style by most accounts -- including worse food and
harder labor. But it was a vastly larger economic niche, and most of
us are descended from people who filled it.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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