Re: FAQ Additions (Posthuman mind control)

From: Nick Bostrom (bostrom@ndirect.co.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 24 1999 - 13:34:53 MST


den Otter wrote:

> Better yet:
>
> In the first case, we should make sure that such entities are *us*.

Yes, that would be nice. Especially if we could make sure that all of
us (who wanted) could be an SI. It is less pleasant to
imagine that just one or two persons in the world get to be in the
first generation of SIs. Could we trust them?

Nick Bostrom
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics



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