RE: FAQ Additions (Posthuman mind control)

From: Billy Brown (bbrown@conemsco.com)
Date: Thu Feb 25 1999 - 06:27:01 MST


Nick Bostrom wrote:
> 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?

What do you mean, "them"? How about a race - the last one over the top has
to nursemaid the stay-behinds!

Billy Brown, MCSE+I
bbrown@conemsco.com



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