Re: Dear posthumans

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Aug 20 2003 - 16:13:18 MDT

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    On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:25:20PM -0700, Brendan Coffey wrote:
    > Sounds like his sentiments boil down to:
    >
    > 1) Don't be a jerk, you're not that cool.
    > 2) It's the journey, not the destination.
    > 3) If all your friends jumped off the bridge, would you?
    > 4) Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
    > 5) Move the hell out of your parent's basement.
    > 6) Arrogant pretense makes you sound retarded.
    >
    > All good advice!

    Formulated like that, it sounds a lot like "Dear teenagers". Maybe that
    is the deep fear about posthumanity: that it is going to be a teenage
    humanity rather than an adult humanity. Of course, the innocence of
    childhood humanity is somewhat overrated.

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