Re: FAQ Additions (Posthuman mind control)

den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:58:17 +0100



> From: Nick Bostrom <bostrom@ndirect.co.uk>

> 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?

Nope. :-) Better hurry up then, everybody!