From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Apr 12 2003 - 11:52:17 MDT
On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 10:04:31AM -0700, Damien Sullivan wrote:
> Cool post, and congrats!
I agree! Greg's essay is deeply inspirational. Rather than saying
that change is easy and everybody who doesn't immediately rush
off and become healty is a lazy slob, it explains how it can be
done, why it should be done, how not to do it and that it is an
effortful but not impossible process. It makes the goal of a
healthy body become something concrete, and that is something
that we should think of when discussing other transhumanist
subjects. Ideally we should be able to describe the steps
required to go transhuman in the same way.
Although I'm still rather sceptical of the Atkins part. Have to
read up on metabolism more later on.
As for myself, I fully plan to switch body lifestyle when I
change everything else after the singula^H^H^H^H thesis defense.
One of the benefits of such initiation rites is that they help to
break habits, although they are of course no panacea. And one of
the dangers is that they make you postpone things into the remote
future. I think I will walk home from the Institute tonight :-)
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