From: alexboko@umich.edu
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 19:46:01 MST
From: "Alex Future Bokov" <alexboko@umich.edu>
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At the risk of oversimplyfying, the challenge >H memes face is the opposite--
Our memes are subtle, complicated, and lacking in populist appeal. Failure of
these memes to spread rapidly enough means an increased risk of world culture
falling into...
1) A temporary local minimum, which nevertheless outlasts the lifespans made
possible to us by technology that is currently available or will become
available within said lifespans.
or
2) A permanent local minimum that is simply 1) that lasts long enough for us
to exhaust our reserves (easily extractable resources, arable land, etc.) on
maintenance tasks without acchieving a breakout event. Breakout events are any
of the following three: self-sufficient non-terrestrial permanent settlement
and/or seed AI and/or widely available general-purpose nanoassemblers.
So, I ask the question I've been asking in one form or another on this forum
over and over for years, but never as concisely as now:
What do we do?
---- This message was posted by Alex Future Bokov to the Extropians 2003 board on ExI BBS. <http://www.extropy.org/bbs/index.php?board=67;action=display;threadid=55189>
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