From: Damien R. Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 30 1997 - 13:50:40 MST
On Dec 30, 8:22am, GBurch1 wrote:
> Because these factors will be significantly impacted by effective immortality,
> such a development seems bound to impoverish the future historical record. An
> offsetting factor may be that posthuman beings will change so much across a
Criticize me if I'm missing a key element here, but the 'solution' seems
inherent in the problem. They're immortal. They don't need to study
history so much, because they're the ones who lived it. I think this
continuity of memory, presumably with high fidelity of public and one's
own private recrods, could well offset the loss of other people's
private information. I think private decision information is much less
important than people not knowing public information.
And an economist might say other people could be offered money for their
perspectives. First-hand historical consultants.
-xx- GSV Polypedant X-)
There's something in my garden, it's been there for a week.
I tried to feed it crackers, but that only made it squeak.
I tried to wash its scaly head, but all it did was cry,
So I think I'll put it back to bed, and sing it a lullaby:
A monster's lullaby:
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