Re: Hyper-AI's vs Transhumans

J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Fri, 8 May 1998 12:23:05 -0700


From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
>think the >Web concept has merit. Seen
from a distance in time and
>space, it might very well look like a
small fraction of humanity
>transcends almost immediately, but
close up it will be a wide movement
>involving plenty of people (definitely
more than a few thousand) and
>work.

Do you suppose that "wide movement" will
require membership subscriptions? Will
it screen applicants via some testing
procedure? Will shapely bimbos get
special placement consideration? Or will
it resemble a capitalist meritocracy in
which performance decides who gets
uploaded?

>
>
>Perhaps a better discussion would be
how we *practically* immanentize
>the transcension? :-)

Yeah, I had that in mind when asking.

Cheers,

J R