From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Mar 18 1999 - 05:09:35 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com> writes:
> And today's question is:
>
> Where do you want to live?
>
> Permutation City?
> The Culture?
> The High Beyond?
> (I'm guessing these will be the top three.)
> Or some creation of your own?
Hmm, tricky question. I assume "everywhere" isn't a good answer, but I
relly would like to distribute myself into a wide variety of cultures,
civilizations and states :-)
Permutation City (or the polises of _Diaspora_) might be a bit too
isolationist for my taste, even if I find virtual universe
construction very enjoyable.
The Culture is *fun*, but might become a slight bit bland - maybe I
should join Contact or that trade/assimilator offshoot mentioned in
_Excession_.
The High Beyond seems to be an interesting place - dangerous, but
filled with potential. But I might be a bit too careful and risk
aversive to get close to the Transcend.
Just like Dale I might enjoy the Logarchy. Having daemons enabling me
to work on all sorts of projects at once, uniting art with technology
in a very free way sounds like heaven. The problem might be that the
political system has its drawbacks.
Stapledon's minded planets, galaxies and universes: no thanks, his
descriptions sound somewhat boring, they just sit there being
enlightened.
David Zindell's universe: Hmm, maybe Agathange would suit me, a life
as a nanotechnologist porpoise could be fun. The Order seems a bit too
conservative, but I'm an academic at heart and sometimes enjoy
intrigue; however, they are limited from a transhuman point of
view. And of course, a life as a Hakra jupiter-brain wannabee might be
exciting (and short :-).
To sum up, I think I would like to live in the Logarchy, working to
make it more dynamic. But I sure would want to visit the other
cultures the rest of the list may end up in.
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