From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Aug 21 1997 - 08:59:52 MDT
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Damien Broderick wrote:
> At 11:32 AM 8/21/97 +0200, a Swedish specialist wrote:
>
> >We know immune systems do a fairly good job against natural "goo",
> >although at a noticeable price: it consumes a lot of energy, and we
> >multicellular animals have evolved sex [...]
> >to improve its chances.
>
> My God, Anders, that's it! We must forestall the goo problem with sex!
> Yes, with sex, I tell you! With more sex! More sex! More sex! More sex!
> Sorry, I seem to be... getting a little... overexci-- Perhaps it's true
> that I need to get out more often.
Hmm, I still think you have a point. Maybe we should let our
nanosystems have sex occasionally to gain better immunity for
themselves or their descendant systems from nanoinfections.
Pedigree toasters?
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension!
nv91-asa@nada.kth.se http://www.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/main.html
GCS/M/S/O d++ -p+ c++++ !l u+ e++ m++ s+/+ n--- h+/* f+ g+ w++ t+ r+ !y
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 14:44:45 MST