From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 02:01:11 MDT
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:48, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Samantha writes
>
> > I don't need every spare bit of matter to be thinking beings.
>
> Well, I hope that you and I are *both* grateful that the atoms
> making you up was converted from inert to thinking matter. And
> after some of us (somewhere) are successful in getting more
> matter to think, I will leave it to you to explain to those
> entities how the universe would be just as well off without them.
Sigh. You are presupposing the goodness of what you prefer and then arguing
from that supposition that my not having that preference is wrong or perhaps
even immoral. This is a pretty boring game.
>
> > If I was going to convert it to thinking beings I think I
> > could do a bit better than what we generally limit the term
> > "people" to today.
>
> Well, that's the spirit. But getting something better than
> people appears as though it may take a while.
>
I would not consider converting a Jupiter size mass into the equivalent mass
of current humanity to be a net gain. That large a mass of that limited a
set of squabbling sentients would create such a tangle that nothing could
could come of it. It would probably implode through the super concentration
of cussedness. :-)
- samantha
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