Re: Uploading, that's needed !! -Reply -Reply -Reply

Brent Allsop (allsop@swttools.fc.hp.com)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:04:22 -0700


Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> pointed out:

> As things are going right now, I would not be the least surprised if
> the Singularity affects a minority of all humans, the rest living
> relatively normal lives in the shadow of Powers simply because they
> couldn't adapt fast enough, didn't see what was coming, didn't care,
> didn't have the money or just refused (there are a lot of people who
> think our visions are actually horrible, remember that). Exponential
> growth makes differences grow exponentially too.

It is indeed very surprising to me that so few people are
signing up for cryonics. If the Prometheus project is successful at
making cryonic preservation and restoration of a mammalian brain
provably successful how many people will start signing up?

Why is it that so many people seem to want to die? Could it
be because our consciousness are just so scared from all the death and
suffering to date that we just don't care for anything better anymore?

Brent Allsop