Re: The Singularity

Damien R. Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:02:00 -0700 (PDT)

As Robin said, good analysis, Hal. Another problem with the insect analogy is that most insects have rather limited perceptions. Even with more brains, they'd have trouble figuring out our From owner-extropians@maxwell.kumo.com Wed Jul 22 02:00:09 1998 Received: (from majordom@localhost) 

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William John wrote:
[SNIP]
>
> Are Transhumanist technologies environmentally sound?
> Transhumanist technologies have the potential to preserve existing
> ecosystems. Reasonable non-Transhuman extrapolations of existing human
> culture have little chance of reserving the current ecosystem. (Dan
> Clemmensen)
>

As usual, my spelling is catching up with me. That should be "preserving", not "reserving".

Also, I now see that I used too many big words in an attempt to be concise. I'd like to improve this by adding a simple lead-in as follows:

Are Transhumanist technologies environmentally sound? Maybe, but they are still our best hope. Transhumanist technologies have the potential to preserve existing ecosystems. Reasonable non-Transhuman extrapolations of existing human culture have little chance of preserving the current ecosystem. (Dan Clemmensen)